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For many years, software development was largely equated with coding. Sprint planning revolved around coding tasks, team sizes were calculated based on coding capacity and career paths were mostly mapped out with the goal of becoming a “better coder.” Yet software development has never been solely about coding. Analysis, architectural design, testing and deployment—these were equally critical parts of the same cycle.

Today, artificial intelligence has surrounded the world, from silicon valleys to the smallest circuit in our pockets. However, this hegemony was born from the ashes of a dark period of stagnation in the 1970s known as the AI Winter. From the perspective of a technology strategist, this collapse in the 1970s was not merely a string of bad luck, but rather the result of a kind of intellectual embargo spearheaded by giants like Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert.