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What are you doing this autumn?
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Would you like to attend a talk about how to counter the fear of not being technical enough, or how we can stop making each other feel stupid, or how to make the most of diversity in the workplace? Or maybe you'd like to immerse yourself in one of my hands-on workshops... about refactoring skills, or about using TDD to wrangle AI coding, or facilitating mob / ensemble programming, or on how to handle the technical in technical leadership? Fancy spending time in Spain, or Berlin, or Paris, or Amsterdam, or best of all, lovely lovely MANCHESTER? Come join me! (And my workshops are REALLY good. Ask anyone. Just sayin'.) Here's the full list of events: Deliver Sessions, Zuhlke offices, Central Manchester, 11th Sept '25, TALK: "Are you technical enough?" PulpoCon ’25, Vigo (Spain), Friday Sept 19th 2025, WORKSHOP: Lift up conditional— The magical refactoring (LH) Manchester Tech Festival core conference Day 2, 25th Sept 2025, WORKSHOP: How to handle the technical part of technical leadership Outpace Conf, Manchester, Thurs Oct 16th 2025, talk: "Ensemble Working: The ultimate in collaboration" Lead Dev Berlin, Tue Nov 4th 2025, TALK: “Journeys in Diversity — what difference really means“ Newcrafts Paris, Nov 6–7 2025, Continuous Integration — That’s not what they meant Hands-on WORKSHOPS for Trifork academy, Amsterdam: Software Architecture gathering, Berlin, Nov 24th ’25, WORKSHOP: How can you combine AI with Test Driven Development Come join me! I always love meeting people. See you soon. |
Clare Sudbery
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Participants in a coding workshop I’ve started experimenting with using LLMs to help me build software. One of the first things I did was to watch the video of Llewellyn Falco’s talk about using process files as blueprints for Agentic AI, from Craft Conference 2025. I learnt a lot from this, and it was a great starting point to get me going with LLMs. In that video, Llewellyn does over an hour of live augmented coding on stage. And one of the first things I noticed was that he uses the LLM...
Clare (me) with Emily Bache and some coding workshop participants So, you’re thinking about using LLMs to help you code? Maybe you’re unsure about the negative impacts - on the planet, on the industry, on education, on your ability to actually code. Honestly, apart from a little fence-sitting handwringing I can’t help you much with that, but recently I decided to sell my soul to the devil and start experimenting with using LLMs to help me build software. And you know what? It’s fascinating,...
On stage at Lead Dev London Never apologise, never explain Right? But argh, it’s so hard when there are so many articles out there like this one, and so many people I know really HATE AI, and sometimes it feels like I’m joining forces with the devil… So I’m going to try and keep all the apologising and explaining limited to this one post, which I’ll link back to from everything else, and then I can move on. I’ve started to explore the use of agentic generative AI* to build software. I was...