Rod Cope is a CTO for Perforce Software. Previously in his 30+ year software career, he worked at IBM, IBM Global Services, General Electric, and for the CTO of Anthem. Rod has also led key technical teams working on mission-critical applications at Ericsson and Integral. Rod holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Software Engineering from the University of Louisville. He lives with his wife and dogs in Colorado where they all enjoy hiking, traveling, and dog sports.
As adoption of agentic AI accelerates, with limited human participation, the question has shifted from how fast teams can ship software to what was shipped, why it changed, what influenced those decisions ...