How should development teams adopt AI without sacrificing code quality or collaboration? In this Talking Drupal Cafe, Stephen Cross is joined by Mike Miles and Jim Birch to discuss practical strategies for integrating AI into Drupal development teams. They explore AI coding assistants, team policies, code review, agent workflows, governance, and real-world lessons from using tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot in production environments.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/cafe020

Topics

Why AI Matters Now
Team Introductions
From Experiments to Workflows
Standards and Guardrails
Skills and Automation Examples
Taming Verbose AI Code
Adoption and Tool Choices
Governance and Training
Measuring Productivity Gains
Keeping Up Without FOMO
AI for Editors and Site Features
Red Teaming and AI Security

Jim Birch

Jim Birch is Director of Engineering and AI Practice Lead at Kanopi Studios, where he leads engineering teams and oversees the company's responsible adoption of AI. Jim is also a Drupal CMS committer, and Recipes Initiative Coordinator, and is a Google Cloud Certified Generative AI Leader.

Michael Miles

Mike Miles is a technical leader and speaker with more than 20 years of experience in web engineering, open-source development, and digital platform delivery. As the Director of Web Development at MIT Sloan, he leads the team responsible for the development, maintenance, and growth of the school's public digital properties.

Mike regularly speaks at technical conferences on topics including modern web development, Drupal, technical leadership, testing, delivery practices, and practical AI adoption. He is also one of the organizers of New England Drupal Camp.

Stephen Cross

Stephen Cross has been a Drupal developer for over 20 years and founded Talking Drupal in 2013. As founder of Second Signal Media, he combines his passion for open source and media production to share conversations that help the Drupal community learn and grow.

Guests

Michael Miles - mikemiles86

Jim Birch - thejimbirch

Stephen Cross - stephencross

Resources

Courses https://anthropic.skilljar.com/ https://academy.openai.com/pages/courses

Skills https://kanopi.github.io/cms-cultivator/ https://kanopi.github.io/delivery-record/