--- title: 10 Tips To Level Up Your AI-Assisted Coding - Aleksander... description: A conference talk transcript from NDC London 2026 presenting 10 practical tips for AI-assisted coding. The speaker, a developer who returned to coding during... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/10-tips-to-level-up-your-ai-assisted-coding---aleksander-stensby---ndc-london-2026-sldlwqflw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 10 Tips To Level Up Your AI-Assisted Coding - Aleksander Stensby - NDC London 2026 | daily.dev og:description: A conference talk transcript from NDC London 2026 presenting 10 practical tips for AI-assisted coding. The speaker, a developer who returned to coding during... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/10-tips-to-level-up-your-ai-assisted-coding---aleksander-stensby---ndc-london-2026-sldlwqflw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sldlWQFlW.png og:image:alt: 10 Tips To Level Up Your AI-Assisted Coding - Aleksander Stensby - NDC London 2026 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 10 Tips To Level Up Your AI-Assisted Coding - Aleksander Stensby - NDC London 2026 **[NDC Conferences](https://daily.dev/sources/ndc)** · 62 min read · 1 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A conference talk transcript from NDC London 2026 presenting 10 practical tips for AI-assisted coding. The speaker, a developer who returned to coding during the rise of AI agents, shares concrete workflows for getting more out of tools like Claude Code and Cursor. Key tips include: treating AI as a collaborator rather than a tool, providing rich context and managing context windows actively, always starting with a plan using plan mode, using skills and slash commands to encode reusable workflows, leveraging sub-agents for parallel processing, using hooks for guardrails and long-running agent loops, asking AI to reflect and learn from mistakes after sessions, being cautious with MCP context bloat, running multiple parallel agents, and always remaining the human in the loop. The talk emphasizes mindset shifts over technical tricks and advocates for 'compound engineering' — iteratively building up AI memory and workflows rather than cold-starting every session. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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