Main Hall 01: Will AI coding assistants like GitHub CoPilot make me irrelevant?

Many of us are worrying about AI coding assistants, and specifically GitHub CoPilot. Will they erase the need for our coding experience? And also, isn't it cheating? How will we show off our skills?
These were also concerns for Julie Lerman, who has over 30 years of building software under her belt. But minds were changed, worries erased. Let's see together how AI can be your partner and sous chef, not your competition.
Julie Lerman is a Microsoft Regional Director, Docker Captain and long-time Microsoft MVP who now counts her years as a coder in decades. She makes her living as a mentor and consultant to software teams around the world. You can find Julie presenting on Entity Framework, Domain Driven Design and other topics at user groups and conferences around the world. Julie blogs at thedatafarm.com/blog and is the author of the highly acclaimed “Programming Entity Framework” books, the MSDN Magazine Data Points column and popular videos on Pluralsight.com.
Follow Julie on Twitter/X at / julielerman .