Summary
“Vibe‑coding” is trending: prompt until something seems to work. The outcome is often code that's difficult to understand and maintain. In this full‑day hands‑on workshop, Marco Emrich will introduce EXACT Coding — Example‑Guided, AI‑Collaborative & Test‑Driven — a pragmatic workflow for AI‑assisted development with an emphasis on readability, refactorability, and maintainability. The day combines short modules with extensive practice. Participants work in pairs and in small three‑person mobs (driver + two navigators) to experience collaborative design and development at a sustainable pace.
For who?
This workshop is for senior developers, tech leads, and software architects working in complex domains. You'll need basic unit-testing experience, but prior AI-coding experience is optional—we'll cover what you need to know.
Agenda
The workshop covers four focused introductions followed by iterative practice:
Core Modules:
- Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Example Mapping
- Mob/Ensemble Programming
- AI tooling (Claude Code and Cursor; Claude Code API key provided)
Hands-On Practice:
Participants work in pairs and small three-person mobs (driver + two navigators) through iterative exercises that combine all methods. Teams will:
- Translate examples into tests
- Steer prompting intentionally using rule files and explicit commands
- Rely on tests as a living specification to enable safe refactoring
- Make human-in-the-loop decisions: judging "good enough," choosing where to restructure, and deciding when to prompt again
Learning outcomes
By the end, attendees can run the workflow in their own teams to raise code quality, reduce coupling, and avoid vibe-coding their way into an unmaintainable codebase.
Requirements
Bring your own laptop with dev environment. Ideally you already have cursor or claude-code installed. We can also install it during the session. An API key is provided by us.