Patterns in AI Driven Software Development

Presentation given at the Red Hat 3rd Swiss Dev Confederation, October 27th, 2026. Hi everyone, my name is Adrian Kosmaczewski and I’m a Senior Architect at Red Hat Switzerland. In my daily job I help software developers everyday use Red Hat tools to make better software, faster. And I can confidently say that we are standing at a fascinating intersection in the history of software engineering. On one side, we have the incredible power and complexity of cloud-native development: Red Hat OpenShift, Quarkus microservices, distributed systems, and continuous delivery and integration. On the other side, we have the explosive rise of generative AI coding assistants—from open-source models running in OpenShift AI, to intelligent IDEs like Cursor consuming Claude, Grok, or some other LLM. The promise is intoxicating: create better software, faster. Yet, how many of you have sat down with an AI assistant, asked it to build a scalable Quarkus microservice, and watched it confidently generate a…