Conference/ORCwAI/Pt2/1300 Dev Skills in AI-Assisted World – Birgitta Böckeler

• The Role of Developer Skills in Today’s AI-Assisted World – Person/Birgitta Bockeler (15 minutes)

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    • With AI coding assistants becoming more and more powerful, discussions about the future role of developers have intensified. Birgitta Böckeler, global lead for AI-assisted software delivery at Thoughtworks , highlights instances where human intervention remains essential, based on firsthand experiences. These examples can inform how far we are from "hands-free" AI-generated software and the skills that remain essential, even with AI in the copilot seat.

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      • Person/Birgitta Bockeler gives a very intelligent and obviously very experienced view of AI coding pitfalls. Quite articulate. Need to check her other resources out and subscribe to her.
        • The role of developer skills in agentic coding
    • 13:04 she mentions CursorAI, Windsurf, IDE/Cline, RooCode
    • 13:07 great points about Software/Testing
      • sometimes you have to fix the code, sometimes it fixes the tests - uses the term "red tests" to refer to f
    • 13:09 impact radius of AI blunders
      • Exploring Generative AI from Person/Martin Fowler/Web - articles - To/Read
        • posted 2025/04 - 2025-04-30 Wed
        • Generative AI and particularly LLMs (Large Language Models) have exploded into the public consciousness. Like many software developers I am intrigued by the possibilities, but unsure what exactly it will mean for our profession in the long run. I have now taken on a role in Thoughtworks to coordinate our work on how this technology will affect software delivery practices. I'm posting various memos here to describe what my colleagues and I are learning and thinking.
        • #Articles
          • Building TMT Mirror Visualization with LLM: A Step-by-Step Journey (30 Apr 2025) by Unmesh Joshi
          • Guiding an LLM for Robust Java ByteBuffer Code (17 Apr 2025) by Unmesh Joshi
          • The role of developer skills in agentic coding (25 Mar 2025)
          • What role does LLM reasoning play for software tasks? (18 Feb 2025)
          • Expanding the solution size with multi-file editing (19 Nov 2024)
          • Building an AI agent application to migrate a tech stack (20 Aug 2024)
          • Onboarding to a 'legacy' codebase with the help of AI (15 Aug 2024)
          • How to tackle unreliability of coding assistants (29 Nov 2023)
          • How is GenAI different from other code generators? (19 Sep 2023)
          • TDD with GitHub Copilot (17 Aug 2023) by Paul Sobocinski
          • Coding assistants do not replace pair programming (10 Aug 2023)
          • In-line assistance - how can it get in the way? (03 Aug 2023)
          • In-line assistance - when is it more useful? (01 Aug 2023)
          • Median - A tale in three functions (27 Jul 2023)
          • The toolchain (26 Jul 2023)
    • 13:12 mentions Coding on Copilot: 2023 Data Suggests Downward Pressure on Code Quality incl 2024 projections - GitClear from GitClear #Report #Analysis on decrease of quality

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