Heuristics for AI-assisted coding

AI coding assistants promise massive productivity boosts. In reality, most developers experience limited (or even negative) impact. What's up?

In this talk I give a couple of my heuristics and guard rails that make AI coding assistants worth your time.

* The smell test: the importance of experience
* The goldilocks zone: work sizing / parallellism sweet spot
* Guard rails: architecture, design, top-tier test automation
* Breadcrumbs: spec-driven but not too much. Clear acceptance criteria. Example of good code and tests.
* DON'T trust and verify

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1. Claude Jo Code 1
2. 2 https://github.com/jovaneyck/eShopOnWeb/tree/atdd
6. Why will this work?
8. The goldilocks zone 8
10. Put in guardrails 10 (great) architecture and design Opinionated, fast and complete test suite
11. Quick plug 11
13. Leave (the right amount of) breadcrumbs 13
15. #1 Reason this works 15
16. Human-in/on-the-loop 16
17. TL;DR: 17
18. Coming up… 18