Birgit Vera Schmidt – Random musings about the world

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Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering

Generative AI in software engineering – a hot take

After many years of absence from blogging, it’s the advent of AI in my field, software development, that brought me back today. Everyone has an opinion about it right now. If I don’t have one as well, I might feel…

Birgit Vera Schmidt
13 Jul 2025

Conflict Mediation

Conflict mediation means: Let’s talk it out!

How does it work? The conflicting parties come together to find a joint solution to their dispute, guided by one or two mediators acting as impartial third parties. Unlike in a courtroom or arbitration tribunal, there is no judge making…

Birgit Vera Schmidt
9 Feb 2025