Exploring Gen AI: how can in-line assistance get in the way?
While coding assistants like Copilot can improve speed and flow, they can also disrupt it. Birgitta Böckeler looks at two ways in which they can get in the way: amplifying…
A case study of getting out of the costs bottleneck
Sofia and Stefania begin their examination of how to get out of the bottleneck of surging cloud costs by relating a case study from a recent client – illustrating how…
Exploring Gen AI: When is in-line assistance useful?
The most widely used form of coding assistance in Thoughtworks at the moment is in-line code generation in the IDE, where an IDE extension generates suggestions for the developer as…
Bottlenecks of Scaleups: Cost Efficiency
As startups begin to grow rapidly, they often find that early decisions that helped them find a product/market fit lead to excessive costs once traffic increases. These costs can threaten…
Exploring Gen AI – Three versions of a median
Birgitta Böckeler continues her explorations in using LLMs, this time by asking GitHub Copilot to write a median function. It gave her three suggestions to choose from. The experience shows…
Exploring Gen AI – The toolchain
My colleague Birgitta Böckeler has long been one of our senior technology leaders in Germany. She’s now moved into a new role coordinating our work with Generative AI and its…
Bliki: TeamTopologies
Any large software effort, such as the software estate for a large company, requires a lot of people – and whenever you have a lot of people you have to…
Bliki: TwoPizzaTeam
A two-pizza team is a small team that fully supports software for a particular business capability. The term became popular as it used to describe how Amazon organized their software…
How platform teams get stuff done
Platform teams have a unique reliance on other teams to ensure adoption of their platform – getting code changes into other teams’ codebase is critical to their success. Pete Hodgson…