Webinar slides: AI Powered Software Development from the Trenches
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Slides and recording from Henrik's webinar "AI Powered Software Development from the Trenches.
On Mar 26 I did a webinar called “AI Powered Software Development from the Trenches”, showing how we use AI and agents internally to ship a new version of our platform every day. Content links:
If you want to learn more and go deeper into the hands-on aspects of this, I’m giving a 1 day course on April 16 (online).
Key points from the webinar:
- Coding productivity has evolved through four stages: Manual coding → copy-paste → AI in the IDE → autonomous agents. Each one a major productivity jump.
- For us, coding is no longer the bottleneck, the constraint has shifted to deciding what to build and getting stuff to production.We built agents for the rest of the workflow — Backlogger (Slack → tickets), Releaser (daily releases + changelog), and Grace (a higher-level agent that reads Slack, makes judgment calls, and fires up coding agents)
- Context engineering matters more than prompt engineering. Good context + sloppy prompt beats bad context + perfect prompt.
- The most important skill is the meta-skill: knowing when to let AI just do it vs. when to carefully review.
- The nature of software development has changed — as a sw engineer, your job is more about design, architecture, and UX, and less about reading/writing specific lines of code
Here are some sample slides:
