Ai Dev Craft

Join us at AI Dev Craft where you will learn the tools, workflows and best practices to be your team's AI expert! All meals included! Send your team and save - buy 10 or more tickets and get 10% off (workshops not included)! Price reflected at checkout.

AI-Assisted Development Foundations is a one-day, hands-on workshop for developers who already use AI coding assistants but keep getting inconsistent results. You've used the tools — nobody ever explained why they behave the way they do. Understanding those mechanics is the difference between frustration and flow. No AI or machine learning background needed; examples use Angular, but the concepts apply to any stack.
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We start with the fundamentals that explain your assistant's behavior — tokens, context windows, why hallucinations happen, what data leaves your editor — then move to how professionals work with agents today: task design, plan-before-code, spec-driven development, and verification that keeps pace with generation. The core of the day is building a complete AI context ecosystem for your own project: architecture documentation, style guides, context files, instructions, and MCP integrations, following open standards like Agent Skills. Bring whatever sits in your editor — Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Kiro, or similar.
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Come ready to build. Leave with real files you can use immediately.

Lunch included.

AI systems are notoriously hard to evaluate: They're non-deterministic, quality is often subjective, and a pipeline with multiple steps like retrieval, prompts, and tool calls can fail silently.  After coaching hundreds of engineers into AI, the skill I see missing most often is structured evaluation. Teams that are newer to AI tend to rely on spot-checks and vibes, and don't know there's a problem until a customer complains or something embarrassing ends up on Twitter. This workshop aims to fix that. We'll cover evaluation from absolute beginner to production: picking metrics, building your first eval suite, component-level evals for everything from RAG to tool use, using LLMs as judges effectively, and evaluating multi-agent systems in production. You'll write real evals during the session and leave with systems you can reuse at work and a way to feel confident in what you're building.

Lunch included.

Free for all Ai Dev Craft attendees! Build solo or with a team to create an AI-powered mission console using AI agents and Progress technology — and compete for $10,000 in prizes!

Two days. One giant mystery. One safe move.

Join Progress for an information session on Monday, October 26 at 5:00 PM or Tuesday, October 27 at 9:00 AM to learn more about the hackathon, how to participate, and what you’ll need to know to get started.