Birgitta Boeckeler is bringing structure to the madness

You may know Birgitta from her articles on MartinFowler.com, or from her own space at birgitta.info. She’s been in the role of Distinguished Engineer for assisted Software Delivery for the last three of her nearly fourteen years at ThoughtWorks. In “Understanding Spec-Driven-Development” she described “Spec-first”, “Spec-anchored” and “Spec-as-source”, using Kiro, spec-kit and Tessl to explore the concepts In “Harness engineering for coding agent users” she starts with some fundamental concepts, how we “feed-forward” using guides, and use sensors for feedback; and then she goes deep, covering harness engineering thoroughly The first person to tell me she was doing interesting stuff was Pete Hodgson, our 2nd ever guest - so I’ve been working on getting her to come on the show since December of 2025. It was worth the wait! Ivette Ordog https://ivettordog.com/ https://lexler.github.io/augmented-co... AI assisted legacy modernisation : From UX to code — XConf India 2025    • AI assisted legacy modernisation : From UX...   https://swamp-club.com/ 00:52 Introduction to Birgitta's Journey in Technology 02:40 The Role of AI in Software Delivery 05:19 Hands-On Experience with AI Tools 09:09 Exploring AI for Knowledge Management 10:42 The Limitations of AI in Software Development 12:12 Navigating Coding Environments and Tools 15:27 Understanding Guardrails and Context Engineering 20:20 The Importance of Feedback in AI Development 22:45 Local Models and Their Viability 27:06 Evaluating the Performance of Smaller Models 30:53 Integrating AI into Team Workflows 36:33 Case Study: AI in User Interface Design 38:14 Leveraging LLMs in Software Development 39:38 The Future of Software Architecture 43:05 Redefining Roles in Software Development 46:51 Quality Assurance in the Age of AI 50:44 Testing and Development Methodologies 54:26 AI's Impact on Team Dynamics 58:06 Infrastructure Management with AI 01:01:53 Refactoring and Code Quality 01:05:31 Mentorship and Learning in AI-Driven Environments