https://richhewlett.com/Richard Hewlett's software development blog. 2026-04-07T23:50:13+01:00 Rich Hewlett https://richhewlett.com/ Jekyll © 2026 Rich Hewlett /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-04-07T21:52:59+01:00 2026-04-07T21:52:59+01:00 https://richhewlett.com/2026/04/07/ai-agents-redefine-sdlc/ Rich Hewlett

I’ve been increasingly interested in the move towards Agentic teams and after attending Microsoft’s recent DevX Conference last month I discovered their “Frontier Firm” research which can be found at 2025-the-year-the-frontier-firm-is-born. Its worth checking it out, or similar articles online regarding the shift from humans in a team using AI agent assistants towards teams of agents with human...

2026-03-12T09:00:08+00:00 2026-03-12T21:32:40+00:00 https://richhewlett.com/2026/03/12/agentic-ai/ Rich Hewlett

Agentic AI isn’t just about LLMs and chatbots, or even using AI agents to generate code. It represents a structural shift in how we design, deploy, and operate software systems. While the use of LLMs to generate code is a really interesting topic I think that many developers are failing to think more about ‘agents’ and how these will shape how we build systems in the future. I don’t mean using ...

2025-05-28T20:00:08+01:00 2025-05-28T20:00:08+01:00 https://richhewlett.com/2025/05/28/easy-presentations-in-msteams-tip/ Rich Hewlett

Here’s a quick tip that I have found really useful as more and more interactions are being done on MS Teams. There are a few options when using PowerPoint and MS Teams tother to present a slide deck, with the full PowerPoint Live feature being the best for a full presentation experience, however sometimes you want something simpler. For example I often find that I am not only sharing PowerPoint...

2024-05-05T19:30:20+01:00 2024-05-05T19:30:20+01:00 https://richhewlett.com/2024/05/06/debug-step-for-azure-pipelines/ Rich Hewlett

Variables and Parameters in Azure Pipelines When building a pipeline within Azure DevOps it can be frustrating trying to make use of variables or parameters that should be in scope for your step buy don’t seem to be. This frustration has led me to develop a quick and simple Bash step that will output all the variables and Parameters that are in use at the moment the step is being executed, whi...

2024-05-01T16:00:08+01:00 2025-05-28T20:38:52+01:00 https://richhewlett.com/2024/05/01/find-dependencies-with-yarn-why/ Rich Hewlett

When doing web development there are many occasions when I don’t know why an application has a dependency on a particular npm library that is not directly referenced in the package.json file but I need to find out. There may be a error message or a warning in the terminal for that library or perhaps a library has been flagged as a security vulnerability needing further investigation. This is wh...