This is a special event where Gregor Riegler will talk about augmented coding. 💬 Abstract Augmented Coding is more than just asking an AI to help you write code. You externalize your decision points, heuristics, and workflows into artifacts that the agent can follow. The agent becomes your mentee. As you do that, you change your focus from low-level details to high-level intent and methodology. Decisions that were unconscious become explicit. In this talk, I’ll share my story of how I learned to teach AI a Software Crafter’s approach to development. The agent follows a rigorous TDD process with 121 unique nodes and 131 directed edges that can run autonomously for hours, creating dozens of commits. It covers advanced context engineering and techniques to increase autonomy while aiming to maintain quality. And I will tell real stories of AI-enabled breakthroughs in real-world product development. 🤠 About Gregor Riegler Gregor is a Principal Software Engineer at Tricentis, a market-leading test automation company. He cares about helping people find joy in their work — because he believes that when people enjoy what they do, they create better results. Throughout his career, he has seen how painful software development can be, but he’s also learned it doesn’t have to be that way. Today, he meets people where they are, bringing fresh perspectives and subtle cultural nudges that help teams rediscover joy and deliver better software.

… with all due respect to Michael Feathers in stealing his book title and a lot of his ideas for this blog