AI Assistance Beyond Code: What Do We Need to Make it Work? • Birgitta Böckeler • GOTO 2024

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2024. #GOTOcon #GOTOams

Birgitta Böckeler - Technical Principal at Thoughtworks @thoughtworks

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ABSTRACT
AI assistance for coding is becoming more and more popular, while assistance for software delivery tasks in areas like analysis or architecture is still much less explored in practice.

This talk will walk through what we need to properly leverage AI for knowledge tasks like user story writing, threat modelling, or decision record writing. The examples will show how we can amplify knowledge on a team through prompts, different interaction patterns with AI, and careful knowledge orchestration. The talk will show both practical examples of simple things that you can already try today as well as things that need more effort or time to evolve.

You will take away a better picture of the potential of AI assistance for tasks beyond coding, and a better idea of what needs to be in place on a team to welcome AI as a productive team member. [...]

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
01:04 AI coding assistance is here to stay
02:31 Why should we care?
04:48 What do we need to take advantage of this?
07:56 How can AI help?
08:29 1. Codify practices in shared prompts
14:39 2. Consider different interaction types
22:50 3. Make more context available
25:24 But can't we do more?
32:06 Curation still matters
38:46 Outro

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[johanneslink]

What's completely missing is the discussion if the potential benefits outweight the real costs and detrimental effects of LLMs

[efiritamaradeinyefa]

Nice video, glad to be the first to drop a comment