Navigating AI Development Workflows 🛠️ — with Birgitta Böckeler

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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.

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🥇 Interview Summary

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Here is the agenda for today:

1. 🚀 Birgitta’s role at ThoughtWorks

2. 🛠️ AI coding workflows and tool preferences

3. 📊 The productivity impact debate

4. 🎯 What high-performing teams get right

5. 👥 Impact on junior vs senior engineers

Let’s dive in 👇

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