Scott Hunter: AI-driven development - Episode 351

Scott is the Vice President of Product for Azure Developer Experience. He builds all the .NET tools for Azure.

Topics of Discussion:

[1:49] Scott's Microsoft journey and .NET evolution.

[3:39] AI's transformative impact on software development.

[6:08] Using ChatGPT and Deep Research.

[8:41] Software Engineering Agent (Padawan).

[11:20] Model Context Protocol (MCP).

[11:51] GitHub workflow for agent-driven development.

[15:53] Handling repetitive or non-fun development tasks.

[19:41] How AI will bring back the tech for us.

[21:15] Azure Spring Apps and modernization tools.

[23:39] The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Agent, which helps monitor and manage cloud applications, reducing pager hits and automating common tasks.

[29:02] Reducing developer toil so there's more time to do what they want to do.

[31:22] The future organizational philosophy shift that may happen, while Scott reminds us that for the time being, you are still the operator and still in control.

[33:37] The development of prompt libraries in tools like Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio to help developers create detailed prompts.

[38:18] Scott emphasizes the importance of continuous feedback from developers to improve AI tools and make them more effective.

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