Hi Everyone,
Here we are, back again with yet another season of Expert Talks in Chennai. We are thrilled to host you on 29th April 2025 at Four Points by Sheraton Chennai OMR · Meeting room - Vaigai. Please join us from 5:30PM to 8:00PM. Event details are as follows:
Agenda :
1. Welcome & Intros (10 mins)
2. Talk 1: AI in Software Development: Striking the Balance (45 mins)
3. Break (15 mins)
3. Talk 2: Accelerating Platform Engineering using Gen AI (45 mins)
4. Snacks & Networking
Talk 1: AI in Software Development: Striking the Balance
AI-powered tools are revolutionizing software development, promising faster coding, improved code quality, and streamlined workflows. But how much of this promise holds up in real-world engineering?
This talk explores both the opportunities and challenges of AI-assisted development—where AI enhances productivity, where it introduces friction, and how developers can effectively collaborate with AI-driven tools while maintaining control. Through a live demo, we’ll showcase the process of building a feature from an expense tracker application. By leveraging AI-generated tech tasks, prompts, and automation rules, we’ll demonstrate how AI fits into modern engineering workflows and how teams can strike the right balance between automation and human expertise.
Outline
Introduction: AI in Software Development
- The evolution of AI in coding
- Where AI excels and where human expertise remains essential
Principles of AI-Assisted Development
- Understanding AI’s role in code generation
- Effective prompting techniques and iterative refinement
Challenges & Considerations
- AI hallucinations, context limitations, and maintaining software quality
- Integration challenges: aligning AI-generated suggestions with team standards
Live Demo – AI-Powered Development
- Demo of AI assisted feature development for a simple application
- Iterative refinements and validations
Closing Thoughts & Q&A
- Emerging trends in AI-powered development environments
- How engineering teams can adapt and evolve with AI integration
- Open floor for questions & discussion
Talk 2: Accelerating Platform Engineering using Gen AI
Developers today face a tangled web of tools, processes, and environments that sap productivity and slow innovation. By combining the power of generative AI with thoughtfully designed Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), organizations can dramatically transform the developer experience from frustration to flow.
This talk provides a practical blueprint for leveraging platform engineering and generative AI to create frictionless developer experiences throughout the application lifecycle. Attendees will discover implementation patterns and real-world examples that demonstrate how modern cloud platforms can serve as the foundation for intuitive, AI-enhanced IDPs that simplify creation, infrastructure management, and deployment processes – making development work both more efficient and enjoyable.
Outline
- Introduction: The Developer Experience Challenge
- Current pain points in developer workflows
- The productivity impact of fragmented toolchains
- Why developer experience matters to business outcomes
- The Rise of Internal Developer Platforms
- Defining modern IDPs and their evolution
- Core capabilities required for effective IDPs
- How IDPs enable self-service infrastructure
- Modern Cloud Platforms as IDP Foundations
- Leveraging cloud-native abstractions
- API-first approach to platform services
- Automating environment provisioning
- Platform Engineering Principles for Modern Development
- Building paved paths vs. enforcing rigid workflows
- Balancing developer autonomy with organizational standards
- Creating consistent interfaces across environments
- Generative AI as a Platform Engineering Accelerator
- Key use cases for gen AI in developer workflows
- Implementation patterns for AI-assisted development
- Integrating LLMs with existing platform tools
- Q&A
