Birgitta Böckeler

Series of memos on martinfowler.com, exploring emerging thoughts about using Generative AI for coding assistance, and to help with various other software delivery assistance

A tour of the state of AI tools, coding assistants and beyond

I talked to Rob Zuber from Circle CI about AI and software development

What building blocks do we need to assist non-coding tasks in software delivery with AI?

In this episode of The Engineering Room, Dave & Birgitta talk about her most recent work involving AI-assisted software delivery

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast episode with guests Adam Tornhill and Martin Fowler, discussing using AI for refactoring

Article describing archetypes of tools for AI assistance for software in the market at the time

AI in der Software-Delivery: Unsere größte Möglichkeit oder purer Hype? - Ein Realitätscheck

How can AI help boost productivity, creativity, and effectiveness in other parts of the delivery lifecycle as well?

Software creation remains a design process; we still have to figure out how to collaborate; New tools don't change the challenges of measuring outcomes

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast episode, discussing AI-assisted coding with Mike Mason, Prem Chandrasekaran and Neal Ford

I talked to Jordi Mon Companys about the state of AI assistance for software delivery in August 2023.

How Cognitive Biases Affect our Software Architecture

Cognitive Biases and Agile Architecture

I talked to Rebecca Parsons and Alexey Boas about 'Mitigating cognitive biases when coding'

Redefining Confidence: Cognitive Biases in a Developer's Life

Keynote, 'Redefining confidence: Cognitive Biases in the Architect's Life'

Guest to discuss 'Starting out with sensible default practices', with Kief Morris

Guest on the CASE podcast to discuss "Cultivating architecture principles"

Cultivating Architecture

How to walk the line between hard rules and helpful guidance, with Martin Fowler

A long-form article describing the benefits, challenges, and dos and donts for pair programming. Co-authored with Nina Siessegger

To pair or not to pair?

To pair or not to pair?

LeadDev London 2017, thoughts on how to use software documentation to improve communication in an agile development team

I summarized all the things I read about programmer stereotypes over the years, and added some of my own thoughts and conclusions.

I summarized all the things I read about programmer stereotypes over the years, and added some of my own thoughts and conclusions.