How developers can get the most from new AI coding workflows
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.7 • 53 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
One of the biggest stories in software engineering in 2025 is the impact of generative AI on the software development lifecycle. From advances in coding assistance to the emergence of so-called agentic coding, there's undoubtedly a lot for software developers to process, learn and experiment with — not to mention rapid change to contend with.
On this episode of the Technology Podcast, host Ken Mugrage is joined by Brandon Cook to discuss not only how AI has been shaping the way software developers work but how developers can play an active role in ensuring the technology is leveraged safely and successfully. Taking in everything from sensible defaults and best practices to evaluating how much autonomy you should give up to an agent in any given problem, this episode offers both a snapshot of where we are today and the role we all have to play in deciding what the future will look like.
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Listen to Brandon's last appearance on the Technology Podcast from July 2024: https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/podcasts/technology-podcasts/sensible-defaults-way-think-technology-practices
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to another edition of the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | My name is Ken McGrage. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm one of your regular hosts. |
| 0:15.6 | My guest today is Brandon Cook. |
| 0:17.9 | Brandon, would you like to introduce yourself, please? |
| 0:19.7 | Yeah, Brandon Cook. |
| 0:24.6 | I've been at ThoughtWorks for 13 years now. I am a principal technologist at ThoughtWorks. |
| 0:29.6 | I've also been playing the global practice lead for software development. |
| 0:34.6 | Great, thank you. |
| 0:36.6 | So I imagine you've seen a few things happening in the last couple years. |
| 0:40.5 | For those that follow thought works, you may know that we recently published the 30th |
| 0:45.1 | edition of our technology radar. And one of the things that we were doing is our CTO, |
| 0:50.6 | Rachel Aycock, actually posted a thing on Instagram. And behind her was a board that we |
| 0:56.2 | call too complex to blip. And so what that is, that's like people suggest things that we should |
| 1:01.7 | put in the radar, but we really can't summarize them in one or two paragraphs. So we can't do the |
| 1:07.5 | topic justice. And so we use those as potentials for podcasts and articles and other things. |
| 1:14.7 | And Brandon saw that post on Instagram and reached out to me and said, hey, I have things to |
| 1:19.2 | say there. |
| 1:20.6 | And so we chatted and we thought, you know, gosh, we should share those with you are the listening |
| 1:25.3 | public. |
| 1:26.4 | And so what we're going to go through is a few different topics here. |
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