Jennifer Looper

Jennifer Looper

Cloudinary
Jen Looper is a creative technologist and educator with over 25 years' experience as a web and mobile developer and Developer Advocate. She is the Director of Developer Relations at Cloudinary and has worked as a software engineer and Developer Advocate at companies including Progress/Telerik and Microsoft, where she wrote viral curricula, and AWS, where she founded AWS Cloud Clubs for students globally. A published author, Jen has written Computer Science for Kids, a textbook aligned to CSTA standards for grades 6-8, as well as The Illustrated AWS Cloud, both published by Wiley. She's a multilingual multiculturalist with a passion for web technologies, applied machine learning and AI, and discovering new things every day. With a PhD in medieval French literature, Jen's area of focus is curriculum development and the application of sound pedagogy to technical topics. Visit Jen's personal site at https://www.jenlooper.com.
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Jennifer Looper
Jennifer Looper
Cloudinary

From Guild Craft to AI Code: Why ‘Close Looking’ Is the Last Developer Skill

This talk argues that in AI-assisted software development, the key skill is no longer writing code but judging its quality. Drawing on medieval guild craftsmanship and close-looking practices from sta...
Development Practices Development Practices Conference 40 min. INTERMEDIATE