Thursday
Room 2
16:20 - 17:20
(UTC+11)
Talk (60 min)
From Pair to Peer Programmer
Let’s be honest: AI tools in development are being pushed into our workflows, and not everyone’s thrilled about it. But they’re here—and they’re changing.
What started as autocomplete has become chat assistants, CLI tools, and cloud agents, with their evolution being claimed as a shift from a pair programmer to that of a peer in our virtual team. This session takes a practical look at how we can work with these tools effectively, optimise them for real-world use, and critically assess when they’re genuinely contributing... and when they’re just getting in the way.
Aaron Powell
Aaron is a Developer Advocate at Microsoft, focusing on .NET and Azure. Having spent 20 years doing web development he's seen it all, from browser wars, the rise of AJAX and the fall of 20 JavaScript frameworks (and that was just yesterday!). Always tinkering with something new he explores crazy ideas like writing your own implementation of numbers in .NET, creating IoC in JavaScript or implementing tic-tac-toe using git commits.