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AI coding assistants are rapidly reshaping how developers write, debug, and ship software. Tools like Cursor and Claude Code can supercharge productivity — but only if you know how to use them effectively.

In this session, we’ll cut through the hype and focus on practical, developer-tested strategies for getting the most out of AI in your workflow.
You’ll learn how to master prompting and context engineering, make the most of long context windows, streamline debugging and testing, and integrate AI into your daily development practices without sacrificing code quality or security. We’ll also explore how emerging standards like Model Context Protocol (MCP) unlock new workflows by connecting your AI assistant directly to tools such as GitHub, Slack, Playwright or Figma — turning it from a code generator into a true development teammate.

Whether you’re new to AI-assisted coding or already experimenting with it daily, you’ll leave this talk with concrete ideas and techniques you can apply immediately to level up your development process.

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A conference talk transcript from NDC London 2026 presenting 10 practical tips for AI-assisted coding. The speaker, a developer who returned to coding during the rise of AI agents, shares concrete workflows for getting more out of tools like Claude Code and Cursor. Key tips include: treating AI as a collaborator rather than a tool, providing rich context and managing context windows actively, always starting with a plan using plan mode, using skills and slash commands to encode reusable workflows, leveraging sub-agents for parallel processing, using hooks for guardrails and long-running agent loops, asking AI to reflect and learn from mistakes after sessions, being cautious with MCP context bloat, running multiple parallel agents, and always remaining the human in the loop. The talk emphasizes mindset shifts over technical tricks and advocates for 'compound engineering' — iteratively building up AI memory and workflows rather than cold-starting every session.

10 Tips To Level Up Your AI-Assisted Coding - Aleksander Stensby - NDC London 2026