James Murphy - TDD is dead, long live TDD!

We’re excited to confirm the first two speakers for our Practically AI Manchester event on 19 March, hosted by AND Digital.

🎤 James Murphy
Tech Principal at AND Digital
Talk: TDD is dead, long live TDD!
In the rush to deploy autonomous agents, many teams have fallen into the habit of “prompt and pray”. Give an LLM a goal, let it generate code and hope the output resembles what was actually needed.
James will explore how Test Driven Development is becoming a powerful structure for agentic engineering, helping teams avoid broken deployments, runaway token costs and unpredictable results when working with AI driven workflows.

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🎤 Parham Majdabadi
Talk: How AI is Reshaping the Software Development Sprint
Parham will share a real world example from a recent project where a feature that resulted in around 3,000 lines of code required only 9 lines written manually.
He’ll talk through the approach used, the challenges the team faced and what they learned about integrating AI into the development sprint.

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⚡ Practical engineering insight
🍕 Pizza, drinks and good conversations
🤝 A great Manchester tech crowd as always
📍 AND Digital, 117 Portland St, Manchester
📅 Thursday 19 March

We are also finalising one more talk for the evening which will be announced shortly.