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Why Creativity Will Replace Productivity as the Measure of Engineering Excellence

Manjunath Bhat leads software engineering research at Gartner and has been one of the most thoughtful voices tracking what AI is actually doing to the way we build software — not just the productivity story, but the structural changes to teams, platforms, and careers. He's a returning keynote speaker at apidays Singapore and apidays Australia. In this conversation we cover: • The shift from AI-augmented human work to agent-driven development — and why Manju deliberately avoids calling these tools "peer programmers" • Why the prototype-to-production gap hasn't closed, and where the real friction still lives • The hidden downside of vibe coding: when you fully offload to AI, you stop learning too • How platform engineering is evolving from template-based governance to embedding intelligence directly into the development workflow • The three mismatches platform teams now have to resolve: speed, determinism, and accountability • What junior engineers should actually focus on as AI absorbs more entry-level work • Why Gartner's position is that creativity — not productivity — will be the new measure of engineering excellence Manju will be delivering a keynote at apidays Singapore, 14–15 April 2026. Connect with Manju: linkedin.com/in/manjunathbhat apidays Singapore 2026: apidays.global/singapore TheLoopAsia: www.theloop.asia