What's in your toolbox to develop products
Mike Elsmore
DevEx Engineer / Developer Advocate / Builder of things
@ukmadlz (pretty much everywhere)
mike.elsmore@digitalspeed.co.uk
npx ukmadlz
Engineering & product concepts and tools to help
Setting the scene
2018
Credit: https://www.dataquest.io/blog/what-are-gpt-models-and-how-are-they-used-in-ai-chatbots/
Predictive Text
How does this apply to code?
Death of software engineer
…long live the prompt engineer
for 5+ years
Vibe Coding
@theprimeagen AI Scuffed Programming #softwareengineer #webdevelopment #javascript #programmerhumor #programming #coding ♬ original sound - ThePrimeagen
Credit: ThePrimeagen
Vibe Coding
=
🐂💩
Context
Vendor Lock In
Even to write this talk
(yes it's code)
Concepts and tools?
Observability
Dependency Management
Documentation
Authentication & Authorisation
User Behaviour
Testing
Observability
Dependency Management
Documentation
Authentication & Authorisation
API Management
Gravitee
Tyk
User Behaviour
Testing
Conclusion
Do use AI to support the skills you have
Don't lose the critical thinking and core competency
Slides: ukmadlz.github.io/whats-in-your-toolbox-to-develop-products-btw-2025
Thank you! I'm @ukmadlz
Mike Elsmore - Internet Muppet - mike.elsmore@digitalspeed.co.uk