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Today’s guest is Birgitta Böckeler!
Birgitta is is a distinguished engineer and global lead for AI-assisted software delivery at ThoughtWorks. Her full-time work is to figure out how engineering teams can make the most out of AI.
With Birgitta we talked about:
Her favorite workflows, how she uses AI in the IDE, in the terminal or in a genetic mode.
AI impact on productivity and what the best teams are getting right, which others are not.
How AI impacts both junior and senior engineers and how we can get the best out of both skeptics and optimists.
🥇 Interview Summary
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It’s the 10-minute, handcrafted takeaways of what we talked about, with timestamps to the relevant video moments, for those who don’t have time to sit through the 1-hour chat.
Here is the agenda for today:
🚀 Birgitta’s role at ThoughtWorks
🛠️ AI coding workflows and tool preferences
📊 The productivity impact debate
🎯 What high-performing teams get right
👥 Impact on junior vs senior engineers
Let’s dive in 👇
