Chris Ford has spicy takes on Engineering With AI!

Hari Krishnan helps large teams adopt spec driven development at scale

Hari Krishnan writes about Gen AI adoption at intent-driven.dev [http://intent-driven.dev] and walks us through Open Spec, a "spec anchored" framework he is an advisor to. Things we talked about * Hari's article at InfoQ: https://www.infoq.com/articles/enterprise-spec-driven-development/ [https://www.infoq.com/articles/enterprise-spec-driven-development/] * Birgitta Böckeler’s article "Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, spec-kit, and Tessl": https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/sdd-3-tools.html [https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/sdd-3-tools.html] * Lost in the Middle: https://cs.stanford.edu/~nfliu/papers/lost-in-the-middle.arxiv2023.pdf [https://cs.stanford.edu/~nfliu/papers/lost-in-the-middle.arxiv2023.pdf] * Tessl: https://docs.tessl.io/use/spec-driven-development-with-tessl [https://docs.tessl.io/use/spec-driven-development-with-tessl]

Navalia puts AI to use improving the bottom line for its customers

In this special episode of Engineering With AI we talk to Hany Elemary and Ibrahim Taha, co-founders, and Alina Murphy, Executive Program Manager about how AI is changing things for the businesses they serve. https://navalia.io [https://navalia.io] https://engwith.ai [https://engwith.ai]

Guru's existential crisis: is coding over?

Guruprasad Venkatesh is Co-founder and Chief Architect for Beskar Technologies (beskar.tech [http://beskar.tech]), a custom software delivery company in Bangalore India that practices extreme programming (TDD, CI/CD, agile etc) and has taken steps to adopt AI to move even faster. He walks me through how he and Beskar are adopting AI, and about Baid, their own AI AI tool suite called Baid (https://baid.dev/bot [https://baid.dev/bot]) As usual, special thanks to our sponsor, Navalia (https://navalia.io [https://navalia.io])!

Chris Ford has spicy takes on Engineering With AI!

"Human in the loop won't work"! "Developers passing on tribal code base knowledge is over!" "Pair Programming still matters!" "Refactoring is not dead!" "We should stop calling things CD!" Wait, that last one is quite reasonable. (Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Design, Compact Disc, Certificate of Deposit...) This was a really great conversation! Chris has been thinking hard about the impacts AI is having on software engineering, and it showed! Books, blogs and other resources we mentioned: Working Effectively with Legacy Code [https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/working-effectively-with/0131177052/] (WELC) Continuous Deployment [https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-gb/insights/books/continuous-deployment] The Phoenix Architecture [https://aicoding.leaflet.pub/] - Chad Fowler's writing on AI As usual, thanks to our founding sponsor, Navalia! [https://navalia.io]

Tim Cochran is thinking about developer experience in the era of GenAI

Tim Cochran, Principal for Amazon Software Builder Experience, is no stranger to software development; in enterprise, scaleups and in startups. He’s well known for articles like Maximizing Developer Effectiveness [https://martinfowler.com/articles/developer-effectiveness.html], Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans [https://martinfowler.com/articles/measuring-developer-productivity-humans.html], which focus on in developer experience, and Bottlenecks of Scaleups [https://martinfowler.com/articles/bottlenecks-of-scaleups/], a wide ranging series that focused on the challenges startups have as they scale up to become larger businesses. As always, special thanks to our sponsor Navalia [https://navalia.io] for their support as a founding sponsor!