Engineering with AI podcast
Kyle Hodgson asks his guests about all things 'Engineering with AI' on this podcast, we touched on spec-driven development, harness engineering, local models, and much more
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Birgitta Boeckeler's talks, podcasts, and articles about software development, AI-assisted coding, software engineering practices, and technical leadership.
Latest posts
Software Engineering Radio 730: Harness Engineering for AI Agents
I joined Priyanka Raghavan for a conversation about harness engineering for coding agents, and the evolving trust model for AI-generated code
Viability of local models for coding
My learnings using 'local models', exploring how viable they are at this point for agentic coding on a typical high end developer machine
State of play: AI Coding (AI DevCon London)
Yet another iteration of my overview on the state of play in AI coding - as of early June 2026
From MCP and Vibe Coding to Harness Engineering: AI Native Engineering Evolution
InfoQ podcast, following up with Olimpiu Pop on my 'State of Play' presentation at QCon London in March 2026
What is spec-driven development?
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast episode where I talk with Laura Tacho about definitions, workflows and practical realities of spec-driven development
Maintainability sensors for coding agents
Practical follow-up on harness engineering for coding agent users: Sharing about my experiments with sensors to improve coding-agent maintainability
What is harness engineering?
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast discussing harness engineering for coding agent users
Harness engineering beyond skills: Using sensors to keep your coding agent in check
Conversation with Chris Ford about harness engineering, deep diving into examples of computational sensors to help coding agents self-correct
Harness engineering for coding agent users
What part of the agent harness can we build as coding agent users?
State of Play: AI Coding Assistants (QCon London)
Overview of what happened in AI coding assistants over the previous year - context engineering, unsupervised cloud agents, swarms, as well as a rise of costs and security incidents.
State of play: AI coding (Agile meets Architecture)
What are the most important things to know about the last 12 months in AI coding, and where are we today?
Does AI lead us back to ... waterfall? (Panel at Agile meets Architecture)
With Joerg Mueller, Daniel Terhorst-North, Silvia Schreier, Aino Vonge Corry, Emily Bache
Agent Harness, State of Play, Risk and AI Company Culture (CaSE podcast)
CaSE podcast episode discussing AI-assisted development, team practices, and engineering rigor
State of Play: KI-unterstützte Programmierung (OOP 2026 Keynote)
Slides of my (German) keynote presentation at the OOP conference in Munich