Checking documentation with AI by simulating human behavior: This is the approach that Ingo Eichhorst brought with him. Richard Seidl talks to him about how personas such as a junior developer or a senior developer can be integrated into a CI/CD pipeline as AI agents in order not only to evaluate documentation, but to actively work with it. The junior developer uses almost six times as many tokens as the senior because he fails due to a misleading URL structure and gets lost in trial and error. This shows directly where documentation needs to be improved. The two also talk about why the domain knowledge behind code is so difficult to reconstruct once it’s lost, and what happens when an AI suddenly acts as a translation layer between developers and management.
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Richard Seidl is a consultant, speaker and podcast host. For him it is clear: If you want to create excellent software today, you think about the development process holistically: people, context, methods and tools. He has published his experiences in eight specialist books, runs two successful community podcasts and is on the advisory board of the heise conference betterCode() Testing.
“We have to get rid of the idea that we always get 100 percent output.” – Ingo Eichhorst
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Ingo Eichhorst is an AI architect, CTO and tech trainer with over two decades of experience in software development and system architecture. He has been designing digital systems since the 1990s, combining technological excellence with entrepreneurial thinking. At Ionos he works as an engineering trainer and at the same time he teaches as a visiting lecturer for artificial intelligence at the University of Applied Sciences Nordhausen. As a part-time job, he supports start-ups, scale-ups and NGOs with his company better be great in the implementation of innovative technologies into marketable products.
Software quality in discussion
This format focuses on software quality: whether test automation, quality in agile projects, test data or test teams – Richard Seidl and his guests look at the things that increase quality in software development.
The current episode is also available on Richard Seidl’s blog.
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