.NET@Noon - Hybrid - "From Fear to Flow: 7 Weeks That Changed My Mind About AI"

Agenda
This will be hosted both on Zoom and in person at ITA Group in West Des Moines!

11:45am-12:00pm - Pizza, Drinks, Socialize
12:00pm-1:00pm - Presentation, JetBrains giveaway

"From Fear to Flow: Seven Weeks That Changed My Mind About AI"
In only seven weeks, our team moved from simply using AI in the IDE to a full blown workflow. Working alongside Lean Techniques, three ITA Group engineers and two Lean Techniques partners built Journey with Claude Code — 279 PRs merged, 95%+ test coverage, and an AI-native workflow that genuinely changed how we think about this technology.

Speakers
Mike Glazebrook
Mike Glazebrook is a Senior Frontend Developer at ITA Group with five years at the company. He's the person teams pull in when a project needs frontend help, and over the past seven weeks he's been deep in the Journey demo platform — shipping major features through a Claude Code workflow that fundamentally changed how he thinks about working with AI. When he's not coding, he's at home with his wife and three kids (12, 9, and 6) — keeping up with whom is, he'd argue, the actual hardest thing he does.

Juliana Jones
Juliana Jones is a Senior Front-End Website Developer and Front-End Manager at ITA Group in Des Moines, where she spends her days turning product ideas into working code and wrangling the occasional bug into submission. After months of being skeptical about AI in her workflow, she recently spent seven weeks giving it a real shot, and is ready to share the hopeful story of how she stopped side-eyeing AI and started shipping with it. When she's not at her keyboard, she's at home with her husband and two kids — a graduating senior and a middle schooler — who keep her humble, entertained, and wishing they came with a user manual.

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