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10 Tips To Level Up Your AI-Assisted Coding

on YouTube 01h 02m
Talkat NDC London 2026 · 2026-01-26..01-30· [ai-assisted-development]

speaker

name:Aleksander Stensby
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video:https://youtu.be/NbenxkeJkEA
slides:none on file

summary

Claim: recent models cross a usability threshold — Opus 4.5 marks a before/after where agents go from useless to writing production features, with anecdotes of someone shifting from 80% self-code to AI-written work and a case of Claude writing all code for 30 days. Concrete tactics: always give targeted docs and acceptance criteria, use sub agents to get separate 200,000‑token context windows, create reusable code simplifier agent, use plan mode/skills/slash commands, prefer GitHub CLI over MCPs to avoid context bloat, cap costs with $100–$200 max plans, and keep human review.

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chapters (33)

  1. 0:00AI-assisted coding journey
  2. 1:14Why developers resist AI tools
  3. 3:23AI coding evolution since Opus 4.5
  4. 7:47Mindset shift to co-worker
  5. 10:17Pair programming with AI
  6. 12:24What is compound engineering
  7. 15:5910 tips overview and first principle
  8. 16:22Context is king
  9. 21:23Managing context windows
  10. 22:48Sub-agents and parallel processing
  11. 23:10Feeding AI documentation
  12. 25:15Skills for specific workflows
  13. 27:22Start with plan in plan mode
  14. 29:51Human expertise and feedback
  15. 31:57Acceptance criteria and long agents
  16. 33:45Breaking tasks into components
  17. 35:09MCP servers and context bloat
  18. 38:00Updating plans and clearing context
  19. 38:22Choosing the right AI model
  20. 40:07Tool-specific features
  21. 41:11Slash commands
  22. 44:31Code simplifier agent
  23. 45:35Sub-agents for parallel tasks
  24. 48:04Hooks and guardrails
  25. 50:58Skills marketplace
  26. 53:50Git workflows and agent mistakes
  27. 54:55Reflecting on AI mistakes
  28. 55:57MCP security and database access
  29. 57:01Tool search for context
  30. 57:23Browser MCPs for debugging
  31. 58:26Running multiple agents
  32. 1:00:11Background agents and remote tasks
  33. 1:01:34Human in the loop

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