Why Attend?
AI coding assistants are transforming development, but without structure, results remain inconsistent.
Ricardo Sueiras, Principal Developer Advocate at Amazon, will teach you Spec-driven development (SDD), a methodology that defines clear specifications before code. Discover Amazon's proven approach to designing before building, the same process used to develop complex systems at scale. This workshop moves you beyond "vibe coding" and shows you how to guide AI tools through predictable processes that deliver reliable outcomes. Learn how tools like Amazon Kiro operationalize this methodical approach for consistently high-quality results.
By the end of this workshop, you’ll be able to:
- Understand some of the challenges with existing approaches to using AI coding assistants.
- Learn what specification driven development (SDD) is and its key components
- Look at how to implement new workflows that generate requirements and how to formulate these using EARS
- Go from requirements to implementation via tasks, looking at how to use AI coding assistants to drive task completion
- Look at how context engineering fits into SDD
- Learn about adjacent methodologies and tools that are emerging in this space
- Access curated resources to keep improving your skills.
What You'll Get
✅ Certificate of Completion to showcase your expertise
🎥 Full workshop recording with 120-day access
🔄 Q&A session
⚡ Hands-on full-stack build
🧰 AWS Credits so you can explore in more detail some of the tools mentioned
👥 Networking with peers and experts in AI-driven development
Who Should Attend?
This workshop is designed for anyone looking to stay ahead of the curve in modern app development:
- Developers who want to move from ideas to code that you can actually run in production.
- Python Developers who want to know more about new ways of using AI coding assistants with Python
- Intermediate learners with basic knowledge of Python and AI coding assistants, eager to gain hands-on experience
- Team and Engineering Leads who want to know more so they can evaluate SDD for their team’s projects
Prerequisites:
- Technical: Whilst the examples will be in Python, you can follow along and use your preferred programming language
- AI Coding Assistant: Kiro (download here) or Amazon Q CLI (Windows, Mac or Linux) - check out the installation guides here to help you here
- Experience: Intermediate level programming experience.
What Sets this Workshop Apart
- Practical, project-based approach: You won’t just learn theory, you’ll build a complete demo application.
- Step-by-step workflow: The workshop breaks down the key steps to specification driven development, and you will be following each of the steps to gain understanding of each step.
- Live coding with real tools: Work directly with Python and AI coding assistants - this workshop will provide you access an AI coding assistant you can use for free (and which you can use even after the workshop has completed)
- Execution focus: You will get to learn some new techniques that will help you generate more useful output from AI coding assistants
- Expert instructor: Learn directly from Ricardo Sueiras from AWS
Reserve your spot now and transform how you build applications with AI!
