Guruprasad Venkatesh is Co-founder and Chief Architect for Beskar Technologies (beskar.tech), a custom software delivery company in Bangalore India that practices extreme programming (TDD, CI/CD, agile etc) and has taken steps to adopt AI to move even faster. He walks me through how he and Beskar are adopting AI, and about Baid, their own AI AI tool suite called Baid (https://baid.dev/bot)

As usual, special thanks to our sponsor, Navalia (https://navalia.io)!

"Human in the loop won't work"!

"Developers passing on tribal code base knowledge is over!"

"Pair Programming still matters!"

"Refactoring is not dead!"

"We should stop calling things CD!"

Wait, that last one is quite reasonable. (Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Design, Compact Disc, Certificate of Deposit...)

This was a really great conversation! Chris has been thinking hard about the impacts AI is having on software engineering, and it showed!

Books, blogs and other resources we mentioned:

Working Effectively with Legacy Code (WELC)

Continuous Deployment

The Phoenix Architecture - Chad Fowler's writing on AI

As usual, thanks to our founding sponsor, Navalia!

Tim Cochran, Principal for Amazon Software Builder Experience, is no stranger to software development; in enterprise, scaleups and in startups. He’s well known for articles like Maximizing Developer Effectiveness, Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans, which focus on in developer experience, and Bottlenecks of Scaleups, a wide ranging series that focused on the challenges startups have as they scale up to become larger businesses.

As always, special thanks to our sponsor Navalia for their support as a founding sponsor!