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 https://gotoams.nl Birgitta Böckeler - Technical Principal at Thoughtworks @thoughtworks RESOURCES https://toot.thoughtworks.com/@bboeckel https://twitter.com/birgitta410 https://www.linkedin.com/in/birgittaboeckeler https://birgitta.info Links https://www.continue.dev https://github.com/tw-haiven https://youtu.be/ZHjhUvyCSaA 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 Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotoams.nl/2024/sessions/3109 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Alex Castrounis • AI for People and Business • https://amzn.to/3NYKKTo Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ Holden Karau, Trevor Grant, Boris Lublinsky, Richard Liu & Ilan Filonenko • Kubeflow for Machine Learning • https://amzn.to/3JVngcx Kelleher & Tierney • Data Science (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) • https://amzn.to/3AQmIRg Lakshmanan, Robinson & Munn • Machine Learning Design Patterns • https://amzn.to/2ZD7t0x Lakshmanan, Görner & Gillard • Practical Machine Learning for Computer Vision • https://amzn.to/3m9HNjP https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #AIAssistance #AIAssistant #LLM #LargeLanguageModel #LimitationsOfLLMs #InsideGPT #GPT #GenAI #AI #GenerativeAI #CommonCrawl #Haiven #BirgittaBoeckeler CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1