Rachel currently works for JetBrains as a Developer Advocate. She has been in the business of creating software for over 25 years, as an author, mentor, and speaker at top industry conferences such as Techorama, //build, Øredev, NDC and SDD. During her career, she has worked on projects of all sizes from the smallest of apps, to the largest enterprise systems at some of the world’s leading companies. Rachel’s expertise is in web development on the Microsoft stack, specifically Azure Functions, ASP.NET MVC, Web Forms, SignalR, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Her hobbies include science, AI, reading, languages, and travel.
Want to be the coding superstar on your team? Or maybe you're just tired of fixing bugs and technical debt and want better ways to code? What if AI could help? Artificial intelligence promises to transform software development in powerful ways. In this session, you'll learn concrete tactics for incorporating state-of-the-art AI into your existing workflows. We will cover generating code, tests, and documentation using AI as well as crafting effective prompts to produce quality code you can trust. Discover techniques for validating AI-generated content, finding bugs and pay down technical debt early through AI code reviews and augmenting coding with AI to drive business value. You'll leave with tactics to augment traditional coding workflows with AI—making you the cutting edge team member providing real value in your software.