This article is also published as a video on the Modern Software Engineering Channel You'll have heard Dave Farley talking about the benefits of using ATDD - Acceptance Test Driven Development - to specify and control development with agentic AI. Today I’m looking...
I Stopped Coding and Started Architecting Agents (And Why You Should Too)
This post is available as a video on the Modern Software Engineering Channel The focus of technical coaching is the minute-by-minute habits that software developers need to create good quality working software that lasts. These days all the teams I meet are asking for...
The Death of the Senior Dev? How Agentic Workflows Changed EVERYTHING in 2026
This article is also available as a video on the Modern Software Engineering channel Have you had your “Deep Blue” moment yet? That shocking insight that the AI tool that appeared on your desktop some time ago has now got so good, it’s actually become better than you...
It Doesn’t Help To Push AI Into A Crappy Process
This post is based on a video with the same name on the Modern Software Engineering Channel Not everyone is seeing improvements from introducing AI in the development process. For the teams that were already doing well, it seems adding AI makes them go even faster....
Test-Driven Development with Agentic AI
A coding revolution has happened, just in the past few months. Augmented coding is working so well, almost everyone I know has adopted it. I’ve spoken to half a dozen or more different technical coaches in the past couple of weeks, all of whom I know were excellent...
Hi – I´m Emily!
I am a consultant with Bache Consulting and chair of the Samman Technical Coaching Society. As a technical coach I work with software development organizations who want to get better at technical practices like Test-Driven Development, Refactoring and Incremental Design. I also write books and publish videos. I live in Gothenburg, Sweden, although I am originally from the UK.
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