One of the big promises of the "AI Revolution" is to make our lives easier as engineers. But can it really deliver on this?
On the other hand, we have techniques mainly in the realm of eXtreme Programming that emphasize collaborative work. These practices are well established and actually proven to increase both productivity and stability in software development.
Does AI make you faster or slow you down? Can we even talk code into existence? Is it a good pairing? Can you expand your bounded context? How good is it at reviewing your code? What about documentation? What is the impact on a team? Does XP help in dealing with complexity? What does that mean for the future of our industry?
There are so many questions, so please take a seat and have a chat! Let's see if AI assistants like Claude and Cursor can boost development workflows or how XP can contribute. And what the state of AI in software engineering is.