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title: Webinar slides: AI Powered Software Development from the Trenches
author: Henrik Kniberg
date: 2026-04-10
excerpt: Slides and recording from Henrik's webinar "AI Powered Software Development from the Trenches. 
keywords: ai, software development
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# Webinar slides: AI Powered Software Development from the Trenches

*By Henrik Kniberg • April 10, 2026*

> 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:

- [Video recording](https://www.abundly.ai/events/2026-03-26/webinar-ai-powered-software-development-from-the-trenches#recording)
- [Slides](https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ri22j3ojwcjcy10sakaxm/2026-03-26-Webinar-AI-assisted-coding.pdf?rlkey=yq3spwq0fe3npamx8spv686ji&dl=0)

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).

- [Online course April 16](https://www.abundly.ai/courses/ai-powered-software-development-from-the-trenches)

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:


![Dont just spray out new features](image-458634a4dc94f9bec464d1118e99d0384f1eb1ee-2502x1384-png)

![Developer productivity levels](image-c3145fadebf3733832484566c34ce2148a656c59-2574x1460-png)

![Quality](image-268825d2a0d19d2d34f5d3e6e5786c310fe3ca1a-2596x1458-png)

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