Wednesday
Room 7
10:20 - 11:20
(UTC+02)
Talk (60 min)
We stopped writing code, but shipped more code & products than ever before
James and Aurora — working from opposite sides of the world — used agentic developer tools like VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Vercel AI Gateway, and Code Review Agents to turn ideas into features and prototypes through fast, conversational iteration.
This session shows how an AI‑driven, always‑on toolchain became their shared workspace and reasoning engine, reshaping collaboration and redefining what building software feels like.
James Montemagno
James Montemagno is a Principal Lead Program Manager for Developer Community at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005 and has been crafting multi-platform apps for iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows since 2011 with Xamarin and now .NET MAUI. In his spare time, he is most likely cycling or guzzling gallons of coffee at a local coffee shop. He can be found on YouTube at https://youtube.com/@jamesmontemagno, blogs code regularly on his personal blog https://www.montemagno.com, and co-hosts the weekly development podcast Merge Conflict https://mergeconflict.fm.
Aurora Scharff
Aurora Scharff is a DX Engineer at Vercel and the React Certification Lead at certificates.dev. She specializes in education and community engagement around React and Next.js, developing high-quality learning resources, creating demo applications, and speaking at conferences worldwide.