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September 2025

Welcome to The Cirrostratus Group September newsletter.

In this month's newsletter I've included a lot of current information about AI tools for software development and the impact these tools are having.

With all of the AI tools and technology how do you keep your employees and yourself current? Below are some ideas.

A great article from Bain and Company gives perspective on the question of whether agent based AI will replace SaaS.

Paul Ressler

The Cirrostratus Group

AI Tools for Software Development and Deployment

We aren't to the point yet that just anyone can develop software as in the picture above, but AI continues to be an important technology disrupter in software development and deployment. Bain and Company released the 2025 Technology report and the section on AI as a disrupter in software development has a good perspective on the progress and what needs to happen to realize more value from AI development tools.

In recent remarks from the CFO of Open AI, she predicts that the productivity improvements from these tools will make internally developed enterprise software more cost effective and that will impact SaaS usage and growth.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants was just released and is available here. Github is the clear leader with Amazon, Cognition, GitLab and Google Cloud also in the leaders quadrant.

DEVOPS, another important area for software development and deployment is being impacted by tools incorporating AI technology. The new Gartner Magic Quadrant for DEVOPS tools is available here and Atlassian is the clear leader but Harness, GitLab and Microsoft are also in the leaders quadrant.

AI Skills Training

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The Forrester Wave for Technology Skills Development Platforms has Pluralsight and Coursera as the leaders and is available here. LinkedIn was a strong performer which I found interesting since this is not the primary focus of their business.

Coursera has a lot of information about the skills needs and skills people are currently pursuing. I found their report on the fastest growing skills enlightening. Various areas of AI are the most in demand, no surprise there, but who would have guessed that the year over year growth of people taking generative AI classes has grown over 850%.

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