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How I Built a Developer Digital Twin with Agentic AI (And What It Got Right & Wrong)
This post walks through a hands-on experiment in agentic development using an AI-powered digital twin embedded in the IDE. See how a single, well-structured prompt enabled the agent to implement a real user story, generate behavioral tests, and prepare Git commit documentationโwith minimal developer input. Includes real-world code samples, implementation insights, and a candid look at what worked, what didnโt, and where human oversight is still essential.
Gen AI in the Enterprise with Amir Elion
Another great episode this time featuring the CEO of Think Big Leaders and innovation enthusiast, Amir Elion. Amir has worked with clients of all sizes, from all industries, on many different sides of business. His bread and butter is helping teams hone strategy, transform processes, and expand perspectives to find success in the ever-changing technological landscape.
Now, at Think Big Leaders, Amir is using his expertise to help companies successfully adopt and innovate with Generatvie AI. He works with clients on how to leverage AI for their specific user base and product portfolios. As a part of Think Big Leaders, he has also developed more general workshops and courses that can be applied to a wide range of different business types and situations.
Amir’s perspective on Gen AI is exciting, and his breadth of experience provides valuable insight. What are you doing to leverage AI in your processes today?
Legacy Code Automation with AI: Building a Solution
This blog post serves as a thought experiment, delving into potential solutions for a pattern I have noticed on projects throughout my career. As a consultant, I work with many companies, each with unique ways of organizing and handling software development. However, throughout my career at Keyhole and elsewhere, Iโve noticed something that seems to be consistent across all dev teams: the existence of legacy code.
Legacy code can be frustrating and time-consuming to work with, so I used AI to create a solution to mitigate the hassle. While other solutions may already exist (and some may be more efficient), I found the process of creating this tool expanded my understanding; it really helped me grow as an engineer.
So, Iโm using this blog post to share my process with you! Let’s dive into how AI can assist in improving application design (specifically legacy code) through automation.
Gen AI in the Enterprise with Debbie Reynolds
Debbie Reynolds joins Zach on the podcast today. Debbie has been involved in digital transformation for decades across a variety of industries. She found her niche in data privacy, working on the bleeding edge with corporations as large as McDonald’s, helping them prepare for the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). Eventually, she started her own consulting firm, focused on counseling companies around data privacy compliance and strategy.
Debbie’s views on Generative AI are, of course, filtered through the lens of privacy. She cautions her clients, big and small alike, to be wary of the confidentiality of the information they input into LLMs. After the info is given to the AI, it can be extracted – even if code is written to suppress it. On the flip side, an absence of information can also be dangerous. Even though AI is a machine, it still holds biases, and these biases can encroach on liberty, run afoul of the laws, and even harm people.
Debbie encourages users to remember that it’s the AI developer’s profit and the user’s risk, so be diligent about the way you use it. Especially with the impending AI Act (which promises some of the stiffest legislative penalties), she prescribes leveraging AI and LLMs for low-risk use cases like summarizing content or drafting emails. In Debbie’s words, AI “is a source of information not a source of truth; you as the human have to bring the truth.”