AI-Assisted Coding

Instructor Victor Rentea – Trainer and Consultant
With 20 years of experience, Victor Rentea (@VictorRentea) is a Java Champion who dedicated his career to training and inspiring thousands of engineers in over 150 companies worldwide. Based on the lessons learned from the trenches, he gave many top-rated talks at conferences in Europe and online. You can meet Victor online at his monthly events for European Software Crafters, the world’s largest community on improving code quality.

Workshop topic:
AI-Assisted Coding

Time & Date:
May 27th | online, 9am-5pm CEST

About the workshop

Transform your development workflow in a single day.
Hands-on training focused on AI coding assistants: from inline suggestions, prompt engineering, to AI Agents, and advanced AI-enabled coding workflows.

"AI won't take your job. An AI-powered developer will!"

Who is this training for:

- Frontend, Backend
- Engineers speaking any programming language

Agenda:

Intro – LLM Fundamentals

- AI Obstacles
- LLM Landscape Overview
- Participant (War) Stories

Effective Prompts

- Principles of Prompt Engineering
- Mastering Inline Suggestions (ghost text)
- Hands-on: implement a non-trivial coding kata only with inline suggestions,  in TDD-style

Reusing Prompts

- Prompt Files and Slash-Commands
- System Prompts – Global Instructions / AGENTS.md, fine-tuning a sustainable workflow
- Context Engineering – Specialized Instructions / SKILLS.md
- Exercise: extract and adjust coding patterns from existing project code

AI Agents

- Local Tools and Custom Scripts
- Model-Context Protocol (MCP)
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) – semantic search a large codebase/document base
- Exercise: connect your AI agent via MCP: to Chrome (FE) and/or to a PostgresDB (BE).

Agentic Workflows

- Custom Agents (eg. refactoring)
- Sub-agents, handover and context isolation
- Multi-Step Workflows to handle development of entire features
- Exercise: add a complex feature in an existing app

AI on Legacy Code 

- Identify bugs, security vulnerabilities and performance issues
- Exercise: generate tests & refactor existing code

Security & Audit

- Responsible AI usage in enterprise environments – AI Guardrails
- Prompt Injection Attack
- Effective Teams in AI Era

Wrap-up

- Augmented Coding Patterns - overview
- AI Trends

* If you're interested in this program, please contact us at info@itkonekt.com to find out more about availability and prices.