Learning To Stop Writing C++ Code (and Why You Won’t Miss It) - Daisy Hollman - ACCU 2025

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Learning To Stop Writing C++ Code (and Why You Won’t Miss It) - Daisy Hollman - ACCU 2025
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Frontier AI models are transforming the craft of software engineering. Drawing from my journey from C++ standards committee to an AI research startup, I'll demonstrate how modern LLMs understand complex codebases—especially through recent research on SWE agents. Beyond theoretical foundations, I'll showcase practical examples of how these tools excel at tasks professional C++ developers struggle with daily: comprehending unfamiliar codebases, managing repositories, refactoring legacy code, and reducing boilerplate. Finally, I'll explore how programming languages might evolve to better leverage AI capabilities while maintaining the rigor C++ developers value. Despite the clickbait title, this talk is an attempt at a balanced perspective on our changing relationship with code: not eliminating programming, but elevating it to focus on design, creativity and the aspects of software engineering that truly require human expertise.

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Daisy Hollman

Dr. Daisy S. Hollman began working with the C++ standards committee in 2016, where she has made contributions to a wide range of library and language features, including proposals related to executors, atomics, generic programming, futures, and multidimensional arrays. Since receiving her Ph.D. in Quantum Chemistry in 2013, her research has focussed primarily on parallel and concurrent programming models, though a broader focus on general accessibility of complex abstractions has become her focus in more recent years. She has previously worked on C++ language and library design at Google and Sandia National Labs, and she currently serves as the chair of the C++ committee study group responsible for ranges in the standard library. Her passion for improving and evolving programming languages springs from the desire to improve diversity and inclusivity in software engineering—driven by the idea that better programming languages with shallower learning curves can increase opportunities for economic mobility and make the world a more equitable place.

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