InfoQ 2025 Key Trends: AI Workflows, Architectural Complexity, Sociotechnical Systems, and Platform Products

Summary

InfoQ's 2025 key trends report highlights the convergence of AI workflows, increasing architectural complexity, sociotechnical systems thinking, and the rise of platform products as defining themes in software engineering. The report identifies how AI-driven workflows are reshaping development practices, requiring organizations to rethink how teams, tooling, and delivery processes integrate AI capabilities at multiple layers of the stack. The emphasis on architectural complexity reflects the ch