McKinsey December 10, 2025
The role of AI in coding is evolving quickly. Sonar CEO Tariq Shaukat offers his perspective on what’s next for software developers.
AI’s potential to generate code quickly and easily is transforming how companies build software. However, recent developments have shown that achieving true impact from AI in product development requires organizations to fundamentally change their entire product development life cycle. To better understand the evolution of product development in the era of gen AI, McKinsey Senior Partner Martin Harrysson and Partner Prakhar Dixit spoke with Tariq Shaukat, CEO of Sonar. Sonar’s technology is designed to help companies produce cleaner, more secure code, a process that is becoming more complicated as AI enters workflows. Shaukat shares how AI is changing...







