This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. https://gotopia.tech
Daniel Terhorst-North - Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates Gojko Adzic - Software Delivery Consultant & Author of "Lizard Optimization" and many more Books
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DESCRIPTION Gojko Adzic and Daniel Terhorst-North tackle the question every software team is wrestling with right now: does AI-assisted development actually work, and if so, how? Their verdict is nuanced. One-shot "spec-to-product" approaches are doomed — both compare them to CASE tools and model-driven architecture of past decades, great for selling to enterprise buyers, disappointing in practice. What does work is tight, iterative feedback loops where AI handles the more deterministic, structural parts of the job while humans retain ownership of domain knowledge, semantic correctness, and architectural judgment.
The most practically useful thread of the conversation is Gojko's insight on guardrails: instead of relying on markdown files and hoping your AI agent stays in line, encode your rules as real, automated linting checks — ones that run in CI, apply to humans and bots alike, and include actionable error messages. Daniel adds a complementary observation: AI shines brightest not on core domain code, but on the "quality of life" tasks that never quite make it to the backlog. Their shared conclusion is that the teams winning with AI right now are the ones treating published frameworks as starting templates to rapidly adapt — not gospel to follow blindly.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS Gojko Adzic • Lizard Optimization • https://leanpub.com/lizardoptimization Gojko Adzic • Impact Mapping • https://amzn.to/3dQFCOq Adzic, Evans & Roden • Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Tests • https://amzn.to/3yuDaoL Adzic, Evans & Korac • Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories • https://amzn.to/3jQ4QjP Adzic & Korac • Humans vs Computers • https://amzn.to/2Utz55A Gojko Adzic • Specification by Example • https://amzn.to/3hHrEjb Eliyahu M. Goldratt • Beyond the Goal • https://amzn.to/3wDbAL1 Kent Beck, Fowler, John, William, Don & Gamma • Refactoring • https://amzn.to/3SFBYbN
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