Merciless Refactorer
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As coding agents take over more and more of the work, what happens to the craft? I took the audience along on my journey towards full agent autonomy, hitting the complexity wall and the lessons that came with it, and shared how I work with agents today.
As we move toward a world where coding agents do more of the work, what does that actually mean for software craft? Do we still need it? Or can we just go with the Vibes?
In this talk, I shared my story of how I taught AI a Software Crafter’s approach to development.
In this talk, I shared my story of how I taught AI a Software Crafter’s approach to development.
How far can we let AI code on its own? I shared patterns for extending the autonomy of coding agents in a sustainable way.
Co-organized and facilitated the GDCR 2024 in Vienna, where we focused on incremental software development. It was a blast.
Facilitated the Outside-In TDD without Mocks session as well as a Mob Programming session. Overall Co-Facilitation.
I gave a Lightning Talk about Myths in Software Development.
In this episode of the Mob Mentality Show, I talked about “Mobbing on the Open Source Mob RPG”. We start by discussing the origin story of the app and the weekly public mob session to work on it. We also cover examples of fun, surprising, and innovative remote mob sessions, as well as a walkthrough of the app page by page. We then dive into the tech stack, tools, and collaboration methodology used in the app’s development.
Gave an Ensemble Programming workshop facilitating a huge Ensemble of 80 people together with Lev Konstantinovskyi at the PyCon DE & PyData Berlin 2023. The participants excelled both in solving the Real-Estate-Kata and providing mutual support to one another. They initiated a clap-on-green behavior and maintained it even after splitting into smaller ensembles.
Facilitating a weekly public mob where we develop a webapp for the Mob Programming RPG. Feel free to join.
Facilitated the first truly Global Day Of Coderetreat together with Bob Allen, Nitsan Avni, David Campey and Siddhesh Nikude.
