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rob conery ai advisory and workshops for engineering teams rob conery advisory workshops articles about contact ai advisory workshops for engineering teams rob conery your company already tried ai i make it actually pay off i built the ai and copilot workshops for microsoft s vs code team and before that i was the asp net mvc community lead now i do two things i work as a standing ai advisor to engineering leadership and i run hands on workshops inside the code teams actually ship the hardest version of this problem lives in big enterprise net shops which is where i spend a lot of my time but nothing about the practices is locked to it no hype no slides about the future just work that ships the advisory retainer see the workshops work with me three ways in every price is right here on the page an ongoing advisor for the strategy a two day workshop for the team or a half day to find out where you actually stand built for shops with real constraints a decade of legacy code a compliance team and an agent that just opened a 4 000 file pull request the retainer a standing ai advisor monthly remote month to month 6 000 per month and up somebody has to know which of the fifty things you could do this quarter are the three that will matter a person your team can put a hard question to and get a real answer from on a schedule every month the shape of it an opportunity map in month one ranked costed honest about what breaks working sessions with your engineers and your leadership async access between sessions answered by me enablement material and community seats for your developers two tiers 6 000 mo for teams who need direction 10 000 mo when ai is going into the product itself see the retainer the workshop agentic net bringing an enterprise team to 2026 two days on site or remote your solution 12 500 fixed price all in two days of hands on work with claude code inside the net code your team actually ships legacy modernization agent scale pull requests review practices that hold up in a regulated shop and the human part nobody plans for getting a team of twenty to change how they work your team walks out with a real modernization slice done together framework 4 x code moved onto net 10 tests and all claude code wired into your solution msbuild nuget feeds and ci with house rules checked into the repo a review playbook for the 4 000 file pr so nobody rubber stamps and nobody stalls a 90 day rollout plan your leadership and your security team can both defend included 10 team seats in the ai pro my private community for working engineers the learning doesn t stop when i log off book the workshop the front door net modernization assessment half day remote report included 4 500 credits toward the workshop not sure where to start spend a half day with me on your actual solution and find out before you commit to anything bigger what you get a working review of your solution framework versions dead projects test coverage build pipeline which upgrade path is real for you and which one is a two year sinkhole where agents will pay off first in your code and where they ll bite you a written report with a clear recommendation sized for a leadership audience the math every dollar of the assessment credits toward the workshop if we move forward it cost you nothing book an assessment the price on this page is the price on the proposal no it depends no discovery call markup fixed public boring inside the workshop six enterprise problems two days your code the examples are net because that s where the hardest version of this problem lives old code big teams and an audit trail the practices travel to whatever else you ship and they re the same ones i bring to advisory work 01 upgrading legacy net framework 4 x webforms wcf and the project nobody wants to open we use agents to map the dependency graph carve out a slice that can actually move and get it onto modern net with tests that prove behavior didn t change strangler patterns not big bang rewrites 02 using claude properly claude code inside a real solution multi project builds internal nuget feeds dotnet test and the conventions your team argues about writing claude md so it encodes your architecture instead of generic advice plus subagents plan mode and when to just write it yourself 03 the 4 000 file pull request agents produce more diff than humans can read and enterprise teams hit this in week two how to scope work so the pr arrives reviewable how to split what already landed too big and how to decide fast when a giant one shows up anyway 04 code review at scale what review is for once a machine wrote the first draft reading for intent and blast radius instead of style using agents as a first pass reviewer without letting them approve their own work and keeping a trail that satisfies whoever audits you 05 moving the team the part that actually decides whether this works your senior people are skeptical for good reasons and your juniors are pasting output they don t understand we work through both plus what to measure what to mandate and what to leave alone 06 guardrails your auditors accept where code and context are allowed to go what stays on your network how to handle secrets and customer data in prompts and what to write down so security signs off once instead of every sprint real policy not a slide how it works from email to shipped in four steps 01 email me tell me about your team and what you ship i answer everything myself usually within a day 02 we scope it one 30 minute call to figure out which of these you actually need or whether you need me at all sometimes you don t and i d rather say so 03 the work two days hands on in your code or a standing monthly seat at the table where the decisions get made either way in your codebase and on your problems 04 the follow through your team s seats in the ai pro keep the questions flowing and the momentum going after i m gone no cliff no good luck out there why me i ve been in the room where it happened i spent three years on the vs code team at microsoft where i built the ai and copilot workshops and curriculum that taught the team behind the tools your engineers already use three more years helping enterprise teams get serious about postgresql my first run at microsoft was as the asp net mvc community lead which means i ve been arguing about net architecture with enterprise teams since before half your solution was written along the way i founded tekpub a developer screencast company that pluralsight thought was worth acquiring i wrote the imposter s handbook because i m largely self taught and felt the weight of not knowing things i felt i should thirty thousand other developers apparently felt the same way now i do one thing i help engineering teams build ai as a capability not evaluate it as a product there s a real difference and i ve seen both sides of it sometimes that s two days in a room with your developers more often now it s a standing seat at the table where the decisions get made month after month 10 years at microsoft vs code built their ai workshops 30k books sold f500 clients trained books cs fundamentals no hand waving 30 000 copies sold written for curious developers who want to understand the fundamentals without the academic gatekeeping the imposter s handbook a cs primer for self taught developers algorithms data structures computation theory databases design patterns and more the book that started it all learn more a curious moon a data science mystery featuring postgresql cassini and enceladus learn serious sql skills through a narrative that keeps you turning pages learn more the imposter s roadmap essential skills and practices for self taught professional developers devops security containers and the practical stuff that rounds you out learn more from the blog thinking out loud about code fifteen years of posts on postgresql elixir node js career writing and whatever i happened to find interesting that week loading articles view all posts podcast this developer s life co hosted with scott hanselman stories about the human side of software from getting fired to competitive drive to why we aren t on mars yet featured episodes 3 0 2 space why aren t we on mars with paul lutus and dan bricklin 1 1 3 competition jon skeet david fowler and competitive drive 1 0 1 getting fired the pilot episode where it all started thisdeveloperslife com apple podcasts contact i take a handful of clients at a time that s it if you re a vp of engineering or cto trying to figure out what your company should actually do with ai not the hype the reality let s talk whether it s a retainer a workshop an assessment or you re just not sure yet email me i read and answer everything myself book 30 minutes rob bigmachine io rob conery ai advisory and workshops for engineering teams built for microsoft s vs code team now available for yours navigation home advisory workshops articles about contact elsewhere big machine youtube github mastodon 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