The Future Of Software Will Be Defined By Stewardship
Enterprise software abundance is creating a new job: the steward. Here's what that means for your team.
Why it matters
As AI makes code creation cheap and plentiful, the constraint shifts from creation to governance. Forrester research identifies 'stewardship' — curation, quality control, compliance — as the defining challenge of the next era of enterprise software, reframing how teams must operate.
The key facts
10 to knowForrester research summer 2026 by Diego Lo Giudice and colleagues
Core paradox: abundant AI-generated code creates simultaneous abundance of unwanted outputs
Stewardship (governance, curation, compliance) becomes the bottleneck, not code creation
Implies workforce role shift: engineers move from makers to quality gatekeepers
No specific metrics, deployment data, or vendor product launches disclosed
Forrester research summer 2026: AI abundance creates 'paradox — get more of what you want, also more of what you don't want'
Framed as enterprise software stewardship challenge
Co-authored by Diego Lo Giudice and unnamed Forrester analyst
No specific deployment data, metrics, or customer examples disclosed
Think-piece / research synthesis, not original reporting
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Publisher excerpt: This summer, my colleague Diego Lo Giudice and I explored a deceptively simple question: What happens to enterprise software when AI makes software creation abundant? We found a paradox: Get more of what you want, and you also get more of what you don’t want. Get More Of What You Ask For AI writes…