Rendle.dev - How I tamed Claude

LeedsSharp are proud to present Rendle.dev in "How I tamed Claude"

PLEASE NOTE WE ARE MEETING AT A NEW VENUE!!

Access Details Please go to the Enablis offices, they are on the first floor of the building, both front door and office doors should be open. If there is a problem then press the buzzer. We will meet at 6pm for pizza and drinks, the talks will start at 7. Some of us go to the either the editors draft pub afterwards at 8pm (vote to be taken).

Abstract:
I work on a lot of different software projects, professionally and for fun, and I often find myself working on several different things at the same time. To do this, I've developed a process for working with coding agents, particularly Claude Code, which allows me to switch context rapidly and do things I don't 100% know how to do myself.
In this talk I'll share the techniques I've learned, developed and refined that help me get solid, usable code that I can put into production with confidence. I'll show you how to write a detailed requirements document that an agent can work from; how to work through those requirements step by step in collaboration with your LLM; how to maintain state between sessions (which is helpful for me as well as Claude); and how to keep up with what it's doing so you can take responsibility for the solution long after its context window has closed forever.
I'll also share some thoughts about where junior developers fit into this new way of working, and how important it is that humans continue to be the primary agents in software engineering.

Bio:
Hi, I’m Rendle.

I build software of all kinds: back-end, front-end, desktop, mobile, games, CLI tools, whatever. I mostly use C# and .NET but I can do stuff in JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Rust, Zig, Kotlin, Python… pretty much anything. I like to talk about building software, sometimes seriously, but often more weird and fun. I do consulting and teach workshops on things like improving application performance, migrating from the old .NET Framework to modern .NET, and designing and creating APIs with JSON or gRPC. I’ve been a stand-up comic, a television writer, a Microsoft MVP, a Docker Captain, and a bunch of other things, and I’m currently a podcaster, a writer, and the bass player in the world’s premier tech parody band, The Linebreakers.