S3 E10 - The Dev Life | Charlotte Cheng on Thinking Your Way Through Any Problem

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-cursorThe Ai Dev Craft Show is a part of the Ai Dev Craft Conference happening Master October 27-28, 2026 Las Vegas. Join us weekly as we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertJoin us for Ai Dev CraftGet tickets now! https://ai-devcraft.com/Special 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-jonesThe Ai Dev Craft Show is a part of the Ai Dev Craft Conference happening Master October 27-28, 2026 Las Vegas. Join us weekly as we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertJoin us for Ai Dev CraftGet tickets now! https://ai-devcraft.com/Special 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/The Ai Dev Craft Show is a part of the Ai Dev Craft Conference happening Master October 27-28, 2026 Las Vegas. Join us weekly as we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertJoin us for Ai Dev CraftGet tickets now! https://ai-devcraft.com/Special 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.The Ai Dev Craft Show is a part of the Ai Dev Craft Conference happening Master October 27-28, 2026 Las Vegas. Join us weekly as we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertJoin us for Ai Dev CraftGet tickets now! https://ai-devcraft.com/Special 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.The Ai Dev Craft Show is a part of the Ai Dev Craft Conference happening Master October 27-28, 2026 Las Vegas. Join us weekly as we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertJoin us for Ai Dev CraftGet tickets now! https://ai-devcraft.com/Special 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/v22.0.0The Ai Dev Craft Show is a part of the Ai Dev Craft Conference happening Master October 27-28, 2026 Las Vegas. Join us weekly as we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertJoin us for Ai Dev CraftGet tickets now! https://ai-devcraft.com/Special thanks to our hosts:Lara Newsom Jay BellMike HartingtonJames SpiveyBrian Love

In this episode of Angular Plus Show, the hosts sit down with Doguhan Uluca, Director of Software Engineering at Capital One and Angular author, for a candid conversation about how AI is reshaping software development. From vibe coding, multi-agent workflows, and AI-assisted architecture reviews to token economics, open-source models, and the future of engineering careers, the discussion explores both the excitement and uncertainty surrounding AI in tech. It’s a thoughtful, funny, and occasionally existential deep dive into where the industry may be headed next.The Ai Dev Craft Show is a part of the Ai Dev Craft Conference happening Master October 27-28, 2026 Las Vegas. Join us weekly as we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertJoin us for Ai Dev CraftGet tickets now! https://ai-devcraft.com/Special thanks to our hosts:Lara Newsom Jay BellMike HartingtonJames SpiveyBrian Love

In this episode of the Angular Plus Show, Lara, Jay, and Jan sit down with Tomasz Ducin to dig into how AI and LLMs are reshaping software architecture, Angular development, and the day-to-day role of developers. The conversation moves from practical AI workflows and deterministic tooling to deeper architectural choices like vertical slices, local state, plugin-based design, and “removability” as a new advantage in AI-assisted codebases. Along the way, the group discusses why communication, product understanding, and architectural judgment may matter more than ever in a world where code is becoming cheaper to generate—but still expensive to maintain.The Ai Dev Craft Show is a part of the Ai Dev Craft Conference happening Master October 27-28, 2026 Las Vegas. Join us weekly as we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertJoin us for Ai Dev CraftGet tickets now! https://ai-devcraft.com/Special thanks to our hosts:Lara Newsom Jay BellMike HartingtonJames SpiveyBrian Love

Lukas brings his expertise and passion for developer experience and learning to answer the big question, "what does mentoring look like in the age of AI and coding agents?" Lukas is a staff engineer at Weights & Biases. Coding agents are changing how software is being designed, built, and tested. On this episode we explore how engineering is still at the core of the disciplines of crafting software.The Ai Dev Craft Show is a part of the Ai Dev Craft Conference happening Master October 27-28, 2026 Las Vegas. Join us weekly as we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertJoin us for Ai Dev CraftGet tickets now! https://ai-devcraft.com/Special thanks to our hosts:Lara Newsom Jay BellMike HartingtonJames SpiveyBrian Love

SolidJS made the signal pattern popular in the JavaScript community and Angular developers have benefited from it heavily. Time to talk to Atila Fassina from the SolidJS team to get a better understanding of what they are up to...The Ai Dev Craft Show is a part of the Ai Dev Craft Conference happening Master October 27-28, 2026 Las Vegas. Join us weekly as we discuss the rapidly changing AI-scape and how developers can adapt and excel.Master developing with AI, become your team’s AI expertJoin us for Ai Dev CraftGet tickets now! https://ai-devcraft.com/Special thanks to our hosts:Lara Newsom Jay BellMike HartingtonJames SpiveyBrian Love