Session details
Your cohort’s join link, date, and time appear here once the schedule is confirmed. After the session, the recording will be posted here too — along with office hours, if your cohort has them.
The session runs up to three hours, including a break.
Before you join
Everything you need is listed in Studio 2 Overview: your AI ready to write code, your IDE open with a new empty project, and your workbook open. Confirm it before we start rather than during.
How the session runs
- An opening question.
- A first exercise, worked under a tight constraint.
- Debrief.
- A second, longer exercise — the requirements keep moving.
- Debrief.
- A break.
- A live demonstration: watching an experienced developer think out loud with AI.
- Concepts, reflection, and the field experiment you take into your week.
The opening exercise
Build a password validator. At least eight characters, with at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, and one digit.
You may send exactly one prompt to AI. When it responds, implement whatever you choose. No follow-up questions. No refinements. No new chat. You have twenty minutes.
Later in the session the requirements will change — and you will keep working in the same conversation rather than starting fresh. That constraint is the exercise.
During the session
Keep notes on the questions that change the design, not just the code that changes. When you find a moment where the conversation genuinely shifted your thinking, save that excerpt — you will want it afterward.
One norm for the debriefs: we are not deciding whose validator is best. The attention stays on the thinking that produced it.