Themes from Technology Radar Vol.33

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In every Thoughtworks Technology Radar we feature three to five themes that represent the core issues and topics that emerged from the conversations we had when putting the publication together. This time (Fall 2025) they're all united by AI. They are: infrastructure automation arriving for AI, the rise of agents elevated by MCP, AI coding workflows and emerging AI antipatterns.

On this episode of the Technology Podcast, Bryan Oliver joins Neal Ford and Ken Mugrage to discuss all four of volume 33's themes. They dive into what they mean, how the team arrived at them and what they tell us about the state of software engineering and AI in 2025.

Read the latest Thoughtworks Technology Radar: thoughtworks.com/radar

Volume 33 will be published November 5, 2025.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast.
0:12.0	We have one of our bi-annual editions where we're going to talk about the latest edition of ThoughtWorks Radar that's coming out next week.
0:20.0	One of the things about radar that you'll see is this thing that we call themes. And so we like to talk about themes partially because it's the only thing we actually created, as when I say we, meaning the Doppler group. And for more on that, my first guest is Neil Ford, who's actually one of our hosts as well, but Neil introduce yourself and tell us
0:37.5	what a theme is. Thank you, Ken. So let's talk about themes on the radar. So the ThoughtWorks Technology
0:42.9	radar, if you walk on a ThoughtWorks project and you encounter a bit of technology or a technique
0:49.0	that you think is particularly good or particularly bad, twice a year you get to nominate it to one of the groups
0:55.2	on Doppler.
0:56.4	Doppler members go around and solicit these what we call blips from project teams, and
1:01.5	then we meet face-to-face in some location and curate all of those blips and create what is
1:07.6	called the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar, which comes out twice a year.
1:11.3	It's always available at thoughtworks.com slash radar.
1:14.5	And as of this recording, we're one week in front of the release of volume 33 of our radar.
1:21.0	So we've done this 33 times now.
1:22.8	We met about six weeks ago in Romania, Bucharest, Romania.
1:28.9	And it's important to realize that the reason I go through where these blips come from,
1:34.1	because we as a group only create one thing, which are these themes.
1:39.3	Because we are curating all these blips, we get about 300 blips per radar session, and it's our job
1:46.0	to narrow that down to a hundred-ish blips that will create the radar and its write-ups. And so,
1:52.5	as a group, we are curating all these blips. But we've realized in the past that a lot of
1:59.7	really fascinating conversations come up as we're going through that process, because the way we curate them is really broad conversations.
2:07.3	And lots of things come up during those conversations.
2:09.6	And we've noticed thematic unity between our conversations.
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