This post was authored by Chariot consultant, Mark Shvets. There is a lot of speculation about what AI will do to software engineering in the years ahead. This post is not about that. It is about the things we can do with AI right now, on the work that is already on our plates. None … Read More
Perspective from an engineering leader at a software consulting firm A year ago, the AI conversation in most engineering organizations was about capability: can these models actually help us ship faster, write better code, automate the tedious parts of our work? That question has largely been answered. The conversation I’m having now with my own … Read More
What Does It Mean to Be a Developer in the Age of AI Agents? October 15, 2025, Philadelphia, PA At a recent Chariot Solutions panel discussion hosted at Certara (thanks Martin Snyder!), technology leaders gathered to explore one of the most pressing questions facing the software industry today: how is the developer’s role evolving as … Read More
In Part 1 and Part 2, we focused on the mechanics of translating natural language into commands and making the chat more context aware, leading to a more conversational experience. But stepping back, there’s a bigger question: what does a natural language interface actually do for the user experience? After all, if we’re going to … Read More
Tool Limitations In Part 1, we went over converting natural language requests into commands, using LLMs. That’s a nice improvement from having to enter slash commands, but the current tool still has two major limitations: No flexible editing: There’s no way to update or delete an existing item using natural language. When referring to a … Read More
What We’re Building When I recently paired with Claude Code to build a text-based to-do app (code available on Github, disclaimer: mostly generated by Claude), I wanted to add a simple natural language interface. In this post, we’ll build that feature using TypeScript, Node, and an OpenAI model, without using any special frameworks that might … Read More
