IEEE Software - The Pragmatic Designer: AI Tools Make Design Skills More Important than Ever

This column was published in IEEE Software, The Pragmatic Designer column, Mar-Apr 2026, Vol 43, number 2. ABSTRACT: As GenAI tools handle more routine programming tasks, the software developer’s responsibilities shift to supervising these tools. Accordingly, the software developer’s success will depend on a skillset that emphasizes reading, critiquing, and modifying code rather than writing…