S1E2 | Building Smarter AI Interfaces with Manfred Steyer

Ben McHone joins The Ai Dev Craft Show to talk about how consulting and software development are changing as AI becomes part of everyday engineering work.The conversation explores the rise of product engineering, how consultants are helping teams adopt AI safely, why developers need more than just better prompts, and how coding agents are changing everything from pull requests and code reviews to security and team workflows.Ben also digs into the importance of codifying engineering standards, giving developers room to find the AI tools and workflows that work best for them, and why the most important question is increasingly shifting from “How should we build this?” to “Should we build this at all?”And beneath all the new tools and automation, the team comes back to something that still matters just as much as ever: working with people, building trust, and keeping the human connection in software development.Learn a bit about Benhttps://x.com/mchonedevhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-mchone-4b983abb/https://bsky.app/profile/mchone.dev“Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”― Robin S. SharmaJoin us weekly on The Ai Dev Craft Showas we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertSpecial thanks to our hosts:Lara Newsom Jay BellMike HartingtonJames SpiveyBrian Love

Rainer Hahnekamp and Murat Sari join The Ai Dev Craft Show to talk about what it really takes to run AI locally—and why more teams may start looking beyond frontier models for everyday development work.The conversation covers local models, privacy, cost control, hardware requirements, quantization, model selection, and where open-weight models are already good enough for real software development. They also dig into autonomous agent loops, review agents, security, testing, and how developers can build workflows that keep running without burning through a mountain of tokens.Rainer and Murat also explore the shift from prompt engineering to loop engineering—and why the developer’s role may increasingly be about designing, securing, monitoring, and reviewing the systems that do the implementation work.Get to know Rainer & Murat!https://x.com/rainerhahnekamphttps://www.linkedin.com/in/muratsari1/Soverius.aiJoin us weekly on The Ai Dev Craft Showas we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertSpecial thanks to our hosts:Lara Newsom Jay BellMike HartingtonJames SpiveyBrian Love

Marina Wyss joins The Ai Dev Craft Show to talk about what it really means to become an AI engineer—and how developers can keep learning without trying to chase every new model, tool, and trend.The conversation covers the difference between AI engineering and machine learning, why evaluation is becoming such an important skill, how software engineers can transition into AI-focused roles, and why strong fundamentals still matter more than knowing every new framework.Marina also shares practical advice for choosing what to learn, building useful side projects, navigating AI careers, and staying current without burning yourself out.You can also hear Marina at Ai Dev Craft in Las Vegas, where she’ll speak on Staying Current with AI Without Losing Your Mind and lead a workshop on Evaluating AI Systems.https://www.youtube.com/@MarinaWyssAIhttps://www.instagram.com/marina.wyss/https://www.linkedin.com/in/marina-wyss/www.marinawyss.comJoin us weekly on The Ai Dev Craft Showas we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertSpecial thanks to our hosts:Lara Newsom Jay BellMike HartingtonJames SpiveyBrian Love

Juri Strumpflohner joins The Ai Dev Craft Show to dig into the idea of AI-powered software factories—what they are, what they aren’t, and how close developers really are to building reliable agent-driven workflows.The conversation explores why code generation is no longer the biggest bottleneck, how verification and feedback loops are becoming more important, and what teams need in place before handing more work over to agents. They also cover context engineering, automation, agent memory, security, orchestration, and how tools like Nx and Polygraph can help agents work more effectively across complex codebases.Most importantly, the team looks at how developers can automate more of the repetitive work without removing human judgment from the process.https://juri.devhttps://trypolygraph.comhttps://nx.devhttps://metaharness.toolshttps://nx.dev/blog/software-factory-workflow-not-producthttps://herdr.devhttps://x.com/juristrhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/juristr/Join us weekly on The Ai Dev Craft Showas we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertSpecial thanks to our hosts:Lara Newsom Jay BellMike HartingtonJames SpiveyBrian Love

Mike Hartington is usually one of the people asking the questions on The Ai Dev Craft Show. This time, we put him in the hot seat.Mike joins the team to talk about how AI is changing software development—from better context and agent workflows to smarter IDEs, stronger guardrails, and more capable developer tools. The conversation digs into developer trust, code review, open standards, when agents are ready to take on more responsibility, and why experienced engineers still matter as AI becomes part of everyday development.Plus, a few hot takes on TypeScript, artisanal code, and whether you should scold your AI.https://upstash.com/blog/context7-llmtxt-cursorJoin us weekly on The Ai Dev Craft Showas we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertSpecial thanks to our hosts:Lara Newsom Jay BellMike HartingtonJames SpiveyBrian Love

Angie Jones joins The Ai Dev Craft Show to talk about what it really takes to move AI from experimentation into everyday engineering work. She shares lessons from helping thousands of developers adopt AI, why tools alone aren’t enough, and how teams can use agents, guardrails, open standards, and better context to build AI systems they can actually trust.The conversation also dives into MCP, WebMCP, agentic commerce, AI-powered workflows, and why developers need to think far beyond coding assistants as agents become a bigger part of how we work and interact with the web.You can also hear Angie live at Ai Dev Craft, October 27–28 in Las Vegas, where she’ll be joining other leaders shaping the future of AI development.https://x.com/techgirl1908https://www.linkedin.com/in/angiejones/https://chatgpt.com/work/https://angiejones.tech/leading AI enablementhttps://angiejones.tech/tools-arent-enough-scaling-ai-adoption-for-engineering-teams/the agentic webhttps://aaif.io/blog/designing-websites-for-ai-agents-with-webmcphttps://aaif.io/blog/how-does-agentic-commerce-workany and all things agents: https://aaif.io/author/angie-jonesJoin us weekly on The Ai Dev Craft Showas we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertSpecial thanks to our hosts:Lara Newsom Jay BellMike HartingtonJames SpiveyBrian Love

In this episode of The Ai Dev Craft Show, Manfred Steyer joins Jay Bell and Mike Hartington to explore the next evolution of AI-powered applications: interfaces that do more than return walls of text. They dig into generative and agentic UI, A2UI, AG-UI, MCP Apps, CopilotKit, and how developers can build AI experiences that dynamically generate useful, interactive interfaces while still maintaining control, consistency, and guardrails. Manfred also demonstrates real-world examples and discusses why emerging standards and protocols could be key to building AI applications that can evolve without constant rewrites.If you want more expertise from Manfred, check out his book!"Agentic UI with Angular“: https://agentic-angular.com/Join us weekly on The Ai Dev Craft Showas we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertSpecial thanks to our hosts:Lara Newsom Jay BellMike HartingtonJames SpiveyBrian Love

Welcome to the very first episode of the Ai Dev Craft Show! Meet the hosts and join a lively conversation about what it means to be a software developer in the age of AI. From AI-generated code and agent workflows to learning new technologies, maintaining good engineering practices, and figuring out what we can—and can’t—trust AI to do, the team digs into the opportunities, challenges, and occasional chaos developers are facing right now.The goal of the show is simple: bring developers together to share real experiences, learn from each other, and explore how we keep the craft in software development as AI changes the way we build.Welcome to Ai Dev Craft. Things are about to get interesting.Join us weekly on The Ai Dev Craft Showas we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertSpecial thanks to our hosts:Lara Newsom Jay BellMike HartingtonJames SpiveyBrian Love

In this series finale of the Angular Plus Show, Lara and Jay sit down with Joe Eames to reflect on the end of ng-conf, its lasting impact on the Angular community, and the friendships, careers, and opportunities it helped create. Joe also shares what’s next with Ai Dev Craft, a new conference focused on the evolving craft of software development in the age of AI, coding agents, and modern developer workflows.Join us at Ai Dev Craft this October for the most up-to-date conversations on AI-assisted development, coding agents, modern workflows, and the evolving craft of building great software. You’ll learn from developers who are experimenting, building, breaking, fixing, and figuring out what it really means to create excellent software in the AI era.Come for the practical sessions. Stay for the community, hallway conversations, and the chance to be part of what comes next.Join us weekly on The Ai Dev Craft Showas we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertSpecial thanks to our hosts:Lara Newsom Jay BellMike HartingtonJames SpiveyBrian Love

In this episode of the Angular Plus Show, the hosts sit down with Mark Techson to unpack what’s exciting in Angular 22, from signal forms, Angular Aria, error boundaries, and template improvements to the growing role of AI and agentic workflows in modern development. Find out where Angular is headed, how the framework is adapting for the next generation of web apps, and why developer expertise still matters in an AI-assisted world.Link to the new code: https://github.com/angular/angular/releases/tag/v22.0.0Join us weekly on The Ai Dev Craft Showas we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertSpecial thanks to our hosts:Lara Newsom Jay BellMike HartingtonJames SpiveyBrian Love