Jonas Claesson is a Principal Engineer at Provision Analytics. He’s the toolsmith and chief agent herder for a team of six developers with product managers and UX designers to help. He’s building tools his team uses every day; QA bots that use exploratory testing approaches for each story, commands that automatically compare SQL queries when they change, and generally keeping tech debt minimal.

Check out his LinkedIn feed, its been good reading!

We have some really amazing episodes planned, and some that we are working to schedule! However, the next episode may not come out on the normal cadence.

As always, special thanks to our founding sponsor, Navalia!

Ahmed is an independent consultant and AI researcher, and he has some really spicy takes! We had a really fun interview.

- AI finally makes "Classic" QA viable

- Maybe Anthropic's Mythos .... is a myth?

More on Ahmed at https://tekcaffe.com/

Hari Krishnan writes about Gen AI adoption at intent-driven.dev and walks us through Open Spec, a "spec anchored" framework he is an advisor to.

Things we talked about

• Hari's article at InfoQ: https://www.infoq.com/articles/enterprise-spec-driven-development/
• Birgitta Böckeler’s article "Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, spec-kit, and Tessl": https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/sdd-3-tools.html
• Lost in the Middle: https://cs.stanford.edu/~nfliu/papers/lost-in-the-middle.arxiv2023.pdf
• Tessl: https://docs.tessl.io/use/spec-driven-development-with-tessl