AI-DRIVENDEVELOPMENT DAY
AIDD Day brings together the open-source builders and brilliant developers whose work powers thousands of projects worldwide. For one day, they'll share the exact AI workflows, prompting techniques, and agent strategies they use to debug faster, automate the grind, and ship software that scales.
The event may be over, but your next chapter starts soon. The AIDD Masterclass brings hands-on AI workflows and agent strategies to help you code smarter and ship faster. Sign up to be first in line for early access!
WHY THIS DAYEXISTS
Controlled studies show up to 55% faster finishes on core coding tasks, but if you don't wield AI right, it can actually bog you down with tweaks and headaches. At AIDD Day, we'll guide you to grab those speed boosts and skip the slowdowns.
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SCHEDULE
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Daniel Kelly
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Debbie O'Brien
Principal Technical PM at Microsoft
Debbie O'Brien is a Senior Technical Program Manager at Microsoft, a Google Developer Expert, and a Nuxt Ambassador. She specializes in Vue.js, Nuxt.js, and end-to-end testing with Playwright, and is an instructor at Vue School and Jamstack Explorers.
AI-Powered Testing and Browser Automation With Playwright MCP
WHAT IT'S ABOUT:
You've heard of Test Driven Development (TDD)… but have you heard of AI Driven Development (AIDD)? At aidd.io, we're not just talking about it—we're teaching it. We believe the future of software development belongs to those who can team up with AI to work faster, smarter, and more creatively.
YOU'LL LEARN:
The exact tools they use and why.
Step-by-step agentic workflows for bug hunting, documentation creation, UI design, and more.
How to integrate AI capabilities directly into your own web apps.
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Phil Nash
Developer Relations Engineer for Langflow AI
Phil Nash is a Developer Relations Engineer at Langflow, working on AI, agents, and MCP. He's spent years in DevRel with IBM, DataStax, and Sonar, and is a regular on stages around the world.
Build the Tools Your Agents Need
WHAT IT'S ABOUT:
Building the context that will power AI agents to do their best work is more than just crafting the smartest prompt. It's about assembling the right combination of instructions and tools in your context to give your agent the best chance at succeeding.
YOU'LL LEARN:
Why context and tooling matters
What it means to build your own tools
Open-source projects you can use to build your own MCP servers with no effort
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Justin Schroeder
Creator of FormKit, AutoAnimate, Tempo, ArrowJS
Justin is a Partner at Braid LLC and a full-stack engineer. He's the open-source magician behind FormKit, AutoAnimate, and ArrowJS — tools shaping how thousands of developers build for the web.
Throw your IDE Away: CLI Agents For The Win
WHAT IT'S ABOUT:
Forget fiddling with tabs and squinting at tiny inline diffs — CLI agents are here, and they're eating your IDE's lunch. CLI agents can reason over your whole codebase, call tools through MCP, spin up workflows in parallel, and slot straight into CI pipelines.
YOU'LL LEARN:
Why CLI agents are quickly becoming the most popular developer tool
Examples of CLI agents going where no IDE has gone before
AI best practices rapid fire: squeeze the most juice out of your agents
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Kent C. Dodds
Software Engineer and Educator
Kent has spent his career helping developers grow and push what's possible on the web. He created EpicAI.pro, EpicWeb.dev, EpicReact.dev, and TestingJavaScript.com — platforms that have become staples for learning and building.
The New User Interaction Model
WHAT IT'S ABOUT:
We are entering a new era of user interaction. It's being built right before our very eyes and changing rapidly. As crazy as it sounds, soon each one of us will get our own Jarvis capable of performing actually useful tasks for us with a completely different user interaction mechanism than we're used to. But someone's gotta give Jarvis the tools to perform these tasks, and that's where we come in.
YOU'LL LEARN:
How the AI assistant user interaction model is taking shape.
The vision for a future with personal AI assistants like Jarvis.
Our role in building the tools that make this new era possible.
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What Does AI Driven Development Look Like? A Discussion with AIDD Course Instructors
Justin Schroeder
Daniel Kelly
Garrison Snelling
Mostafa Said
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Mostafa Said
Director of Education at BitterBrains
Mostafa is the Director of Education at BitterBrains, leading AIDD, VueSchool, MasteringNuxt, and more.
Developers vs. AI? The Data Tells a Different Story
WHAT IT'S ABOUT:
AI is no longer hype — in fact, I think it's underhyped. It's already writing a third of our code, changing the way teams ship software, and even reshaping who gets hired.
YOU'LL LEARN:
How much code AI is really writing today, and why the number might surprise you
Why AI is boosting some developers' careers while quietly squeezing others out
What the latest data says about where AI helps (and where it actually hurts) in real workflows
The unexpected skills that will define the most valuable developers in the AI era
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Daniel Kelly
Lead AIDD Instructor at BitterBrains
Daniel has done it all. He has over a decade of experience as a developer, has built real projects, created open-source tools, and now shares his knowledge as the lead instructor at BitterBrains.
Introduction to AIDD And How I Use Cursor to Be More Productive
WHAT IT'S ABOUT:
You've heard of Test Driven Development (TDD)… but have you heard of AI Driven Development (AIDD)? At aidd.io, we're not just talking about it — we're teaching it. I'll give you a sneak peek into that first course and show you exactly how AIDD can level up your development game.
YOU'LL LEARN:
Step-by-step agentic workflows for bug hunting, documentation creation, UI design, and more.
How to integrate AI capabilities directly into your own web apps.
The exact tools they use and why.
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Benedikt Stemmildt
Agentic Software Engineering Advocate & Software Architect
Benedikt Stemmildt is a seasoned Agentic Software Engineering Advocate, software architect, full-stack developer, and conference speaker with over 20 years of experience in enterprise engineering leadership with a focus on AI.
How to Safely Run Your Agent in YOLO Mode
WHAT IT'S ABOUT:
You've seen AI agents write code, execute commands, and build entire projects... but have you wondered how to let them run wild without destroying your system? At this talk, we're not just discussing sandboxing — we're showing you how to create bulletproof development environments where your AI agents can operate in full YOLO mode.
YOU'LL LEARN:
How to set up isolated development environments using Dev Containers that keep your AI experiments completely sandboxed from your main system.
Step-by-step implementation of ClaudeBox for creating secure, reproducible environments where AI agents can execute code freely.
The exact configuration and tools needed to let your agents run commands, install packages, and modify files without any risk to your host machine.
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Garrison Snelling
Founder of ComputeSDK
Garrison builds tools devs actually love to use. As founder of ComputeSDK, he's rethinking how compute plugs into apps and AI agents, pushing the edge of what developer platforms can do.
Auto-Pilot AI Agents at the Right Time: Building Agents That Actually Know Your Codebase
WHAT IT'S ABOUT:
You've mastered the basics of AI coding assistants... but are you still treating them like fancy autocomplete? Most developers are stuck in the "AI chat" phase — asking one-off questions and getting generic responses. But the real productivity gains come from knowing when to go auto-pilot and building custom agents that understand your specific codebase, team conventions, and development workflows.
I'll show you the exact patterns that top development teams are using right now:
Auto-pilot onboarding agents that replace weeks of back-and-forth Slack messages with intelligent, contextual guidance
Code-aware agents that know when to kick in and can navigate your entire project structure instantly
CI/CD integrations that automatically catch issues before they hit production using AI pattern recognition
Smart prompt frameworks that turn your repetitive development tasks into hands-off, team-wide workflows
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Tejas Kumar
Developer Advocate at IBM
Tejas is a Developer Advocate at IBM. He has extensive experience in building developer relations teams and has previously led initiatives at Xata.io and Spotify. Passionate about mentoring and technology, Tejas is also an investor and advisor to multiple startups, actively contributing to the tech and AI communities.
How to Thrive as a Developer
WHAT IT'S ABOUT:
This talk explores the intersection of AI and Engineering from a first principles perspective, giving developers key insights in how to not only preserve their careers through the AI wave but to even enhance it leveraging AI as a tool.
YOU'LL LEARN:
First Principles Thinking
Problem Solving
Using AI for Productivity
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Daniel Kelly