https://birgitta.info Birgitta Boeckeler's talks, podcasts, and articles about software development, AI-assisted coding, software engineering practices, and technical leadership. en-us https://birgitta.info/pubs/2026-07-27-eng-with-ai-birgitta-harnessing-structure 2026-07-27-eng-with-ai-birgitta-harnessing-structure Kyle Hodgson asks his guests about all things 'Engineering with AI' on this podcast, we touched on spec-driven development, harness engineering, local models, and much more Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai-harness-engineering Birgitta Boeckeler https://birgitta.info/pubs/2026-07-22-se-radio-730-harness-engineering-ai-agents 2026-07-22-se-radio-730-harness-engineering-ai-agents I joined Priyanka Raghavan for a conversation about harness engineering for coding agents, and the evolving trust model for AI-generated code Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai-harness-engineering Birgitta Boeckeler https://birgitta.info/pubs/2026-07-07-local-models-for-coding-factors 2026-07-07-local-models-for-coding-factors My learnings using 'local models', exploring how viable they are at this point for agentic coding on a typical high end developer machine Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai-assistance Birgitta Boeckeler https://birgitta.info/pubs/2026-06-09-ai-devcon-london-state-of-ai-coding 2026-06-09-ai-devcon-london-state-of-ai-coding Yet another iteration of my overview on the state of play in AI coding - as of early June 2026 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai-state-of-play Birgitta Boeckeler https://birgitta.info/pubs/2026-06-08-mcp-vibe-coding-harness-engineering 2026-06-08-mcp-vibe-coding-harness-engineering InfoQ podcast, following up with Olimpiu Pop on my 'State of Play' presentation at QCon London in March 2026 Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai-state-of-play Birgitta Boeckeler https://birgitta.info/pubs/2026-05-28-what-is-spec-driven-development 2026-05-28-what-is-spec-driven-development Thoughtworks Technology Podcast episode where I talk with Laura Tacho about definitions, workflows and practical realities of spec-driven development Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai-spec-driven Birgitta Boeckeler https://birgitta.info/pubs/2026-05-27-maintainability-sensors-for-coding-agents 2026-05-27-maintainability-sensors-for-coding-agents Practical follow-up on harness engineering for coding agent users: Sharing about my experiments with sensors to improve coding-agent maintainability Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai-harness-engineering Birgitta Boeckeler https://birgitta.info/pubs/2026-05-14-what-is-harness-engineering 2026-05-14-what-is-harness-engineering Thoughtworks Technology Podcast discussing harness engineering for coding agent users Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai-harness-engineering Birgitta Boeckeler https://birgitta.info/pubs/2026-04-26-harness-engineering-beyond-skills-sensors-agents 2026-04-26-harness-engineering-beyond-skills-sensors-agents Conversation with Chris Ford about harness engineering, deep diving into examples of computational sensors to help coding agents self-correct Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai-harness-engineering Birgitta Boeckeler https://birgitta.info/pubs/2026-04-02-harness-engineering 2026-04-02-harness-engineering What part of the agent harness can we build as coding agent users? Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai-harness-engineering Birgitta Boeckeler https://birgitta.info/pubs/2026-03-16-state-of-play-ai-coding-assistants 2026-03-16-state-of-play-ai-coding-assistants Overview of what happened in AI coding assistants over the previous year - context engineering, unsupervised cloud agents, swarms, as well as a rise of costs and security incidents. Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai-state-of-play Birgitta Boeckeler https://birgitta.info/pubs/2026-03-10-ama-state-of-play-ai-coding 2026-03-10-ama-state-of-play-ai-coding What are the most important things to know about the last 12 months in AI coding, and where are we today? Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai-state-of-play Birgitta Boeckeler https://birgitta.info/pubs/2026-03-10-panel-ai-waterfall-approach 2026-03-10-panel-ai-waterfall-approach With Joerg Mueller, Daniel Terhorst-North, Silvia Schreier, Aino Vonge Corry, Emily Bache Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai-assistance Birgitta Boeckeler https://birgitta.info/pubs/2026-03-08-podcast-agent-harness-state-of-play 2026-03-08-podcast-agent-harness-state-of-play CaSE podcast episode discussing AI-assisted development, team practices, and engineering rigor Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai-assistance Birgitta Boeckeler https://birgitta.info/pubs/2026-02-13-oop-keynote-ki-programmierung 2026-02-13-oop-keynote-ki-programmierung Slides of my (German) keynote presentation at the OOP conference in Munich Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai-state-of-play Birgitta Boeckeler