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Gökhan Gökalp
Cloud Architecture, Platform Engineering & Agentic AI
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Keeping Specs and Shared Understanding Aligned at AI Speed
With AI-assisted engineering, we engineers are moving faster and changes are getting shipped faster. This is also true for my own daily work. But I must say, the work surrounding those changes doesn’t really get smaller. I have always believed that complexity never goes away, it just moves to a different place. Because of this […]
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From AI Conversations to Durable Engineering: What Spec-Driven Development Changed in My Workflow
Over the last couple of months, like probably many developers, I have been using AI coding agents more and more as part of my daily engineering workflow. I would say they are great thinking partners… I can explore an architecture, challenge an idea, ask them to inspect an existing codebase and iterate on a design […]
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