Onboarding a Developer with AI: A Better First-Day Experience | DEM367

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Onboarding is one of the most underestimated areas of Developer Experience. This session demonstrates how AI can help a new developer become productive faster by explaining a codebase, surfacing useful context, identifying key components, and supporting a first contribution. The demo shows how AI can reduce frustration and shorten the time to meaningful impact.



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To learn more, please check out these resources:

* https://aka.ms/build26-next-steps





𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀:

* Michel Hubert





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DEM367 | English (US) | Developer tools & frameworks





Demo | (200) Intermediate





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Chapters:

0:00 - Speaker introduction and background information

00:01:01 - Key onboarding statistics: productivity timeline and reading code

00:02:42 - Four key objectives in improving developer onboarding with AI

00:06:32 - Rapid overview replaces traditional long whiteboard sessions

00:07:49 - Agent detects active versus legacy code based on recent activity

00:12:23 - Identification of pain point with Postgre before Phase 2

00:12:30 - Analysis comparing Postgre and Krikaus due to performance issues

00:19:00 - Agent analyzes root cause and proposes backend updates with code suggestions

00:19:16 - Agent executes fix implementation and updates codebase