Birgitta works at Thoughtworks where she is currently the company's global SME for AI-assisted Software Delivery. She is a software developer, architect and technical leader with about 20 years of experience in technology. Her career in software delivery consulting has given her the opportunity to see many organizations and teams succeed and fail at delivering valuable software.
After almost 2 years of high attention on coding assistants, at the beginning of 2025 many organizations were disappointed by the measurable results. The recent arrival of coding assistance agents though has stirred up and reset expectations and the hype.This presentation gives an overview of the tooling and features in AI coding assistants today, and what new workflows they enable. It will partic...