Marit van Dijk is a software developer with 20 years of experience in different roles and companies. She is a Java Champion and works as a Developer Advocate at JetBrains. She loves building awesome software with amazing people and making developers lives better.
She enjoys learning new things as well as sharing knowledge on programming, software development, testing & test automation, and more. She has contributed to open-source projects like Cucumber and several other projects.
Marit speaks at international conferences, in webinars, and on podcasts, occasionally writes blog posts, and contributed to the book “97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly Media).
As developers, we spend a lot of time learning to write code, while spending little to no time learning to read code. Meanwhile, we often spend more time reading code than actually writing it. Shouldn’t we be spending at least the same amount of time and effort improving this skill? Deliberate practice can help us get better at reading code. Learning how to better read and understand code, can in turn teach us what makes code readable. This might even help us to write code that is easier to read.
In this talk we will discuss the benefits of deliberately practicing reading code in a code reading club or session without an IDE, as well as common strategies to navigate a new codebase and familiarise ourselves with the code using the IDE.
IntelliJ IDEA already had plenty of smart features to make developers’ lives easier: code completion, tool integration and more.
Now with JetBrains AI Assistant you have the power of LLMs right inside your IDE. Let’s take a look at how the knowledge your IDE has about your project combines with the power of LLMs to enhance your coding workflow. We’ll look at what JetBrains AI Assistant can do for you, and what it can’t (yet?).
Will AI Assistant make developers redundant? Come and find out.
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