AI-assisted coding: Experiences and perspectives

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Careers, Business, 907234, Technology

4.7 • 53 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Generative AI appears to be making an impact in a huge range of fields, but one that we're particularly interested in at Thoughtworks is its use in software development.

In recent months, there's been a lot of talk in the industry around issues like whether AI might boost developer productivity and if it can be used for pair programming, but in this episode of the Technology Podcast we try to get beneath the hype to explore the reality of generative AI and software development — how is it actually being used today? What works? And what doesn't?

To dive deeper into all this, Chief of AI Mike Mason and Global Lead for AI-Assisted Software Delivery Birgitta Böckeler join hosts Prem Chandrasekaran and Neal Ford, discussing everything from the current tooling to the way GenAI is shaping developer practices and workflows.

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0:00.0	Welcome, everyone. My name is Prane Chandishakran. I am one of your regular co-hosts on the ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast. I also have Neil Ford with me. Neil, do you want to introduce yourself?
0:20.1	Indeed, I do. Thanks, Pram. Welcome everybody to the podcast. I'm Neil Ford, me. Neil, do you want to introduce yourself? Indeed, I do. Thanks,
0:21.2	Pram. Welcome everybody to the podcast. I'm Neil Ford, one of your other regular hosts, and
0:25.6	boy, you're going to hear a lot of familiar voices on this podcast because our guests today
0:30.9	are normally hosts, but they're in the much more luxurious guest chairs today in our palatial podcasting lounge.
0:40.5	So today we're joined by Mike Mason and Birgita Bekler.
0:45.6	So I'll let them introduce themselves.
0:47.5	Yeah, lots of nepotism always on our podcast, right?
0:50.2	When hosts become guests, yeah.
0:52.1	Hi, everybody.
0:52.7	My name is Begita Bekele.
0:54.2	I'm a technical principal with ThoughtWorks in Berlin, Germany.
0:58.0	And my name is Mike Mason.
0:59.4	I'm the chief AI officer for ThoughtWorks.
1:02.7	And that is particularly apropos for this podcast because our topic today is AI-assisted software development.
1:12.9	And Mike seems like a perfectly good guest for that.
1:16.0	And definitely so is Brigida.
1:18.1	Yeah, I should have probably mentioned, yeah,
1:19.8	that I also have a global role at the moment at ThoughtWorks,
1:23.1	where I work in Mike's team to look into exactly this, right?
1:27.2	So Mike is the chief AI officer and I'm on
1:29.5	his team looking specifically into everything related to AI and of course the flavor of the day,
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