Scott Hunter: AI-driven development - Episode 351

Scott is the Vice President of Product for Azure Developer Experience. He builds all the .NET tools for Azure.   Topics of Discussion: [1:49] Scott’s Microsoft journey and .NET evolution. [3:39] AI's transformative impact on software development. [6:08] Using ChatGPT and Deep Research. [8:41] Software Engineering Agent (Padawan). [11:20] Model Context Protocol (MCP). [11:51] GitHub workflow for agent-driven development. [15:53] Handling repetitive or non-fun development tasks. [19:41] How AI will bring back the tech for us. [21:15] Azure Spring Apps and modernization tools. [23:39] The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Agent, which helps monitor and manage cloud applications, reducing pager hits and automating common tasks. [29:02] Reducing developer toil so there’s more time to do what they want to do. [31:22] The future organizational philosophy shift that may happen, while Scott reminds us that for the time being, you are still the operator and still in control. [33:37] The development of prompt libraries in tools like Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio to help developers create detailed prompts. [38:18] Scott emphasizes the importance of continuous feedback from developers to improve AI tools and make them more effective.   Mentioned in this Episode: Clear Measure Way Architect Forum Software Engineer Forum Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at programming@palermo.net. Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor) .NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo Scott Hunter: Microsoft’s Azure & .NET Strategy- Episode 211 Scott Hunter: .NET8 - Episode 272 scott.hunter@microsoft.com   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.