Devs vs. Marketers, COBOL and Copilot, Make Live Coding Easy and more - The Best of LIVE 2025 - Part 3

Is 'vibe coding' with AI creating a new job market for developers? Meet the 'vibe code fixers' who are cleaning up the resulting technical debt.

#1about 6 minutes

Getting hired by contributing to open source projects

Sharing your work and contributing to open source projects can lead directly to job opportunities by demonstrating your expertise and passion.

#2about 3 minutes

Building trust through honest developer advocacy

Effective developer advocacy involves being honest about your product's limitations and knowledgeable about competitors to build credibility with a technical audience.

#3about 6 minutes

Using AI agents to modernize legacy COBOL systems

A multi-agent AI framework can help reverse-engineer and migrate legacy COBOL code by overcoming the limitations of single LLM models and small context windows.

#4about 7 minutes

Comparing software maintenance to tattoo cover-ups

A tattoo analogy illustrates how poorly planned software becomes painful legacy code that is difficult and expensive to change or remove later.

#5about 14 minutes

Scripting presentations and demos in VS Code

The "Demo Time" VS Code extension helps create repeatable, stress-free presentations and live coding sessions by scripting every action from typing to running commands.

#6about 14 minutes

Exploring the role and ethics of AI in gaming

AI has long been used in games for NPC behavior and training models, but generative AI now raises ethical questions about data rights and artistic integrity.

#7about 4 minutes

The emerging market for fixing AI-generated code

The trend of "vibe coding" with AI is creating a new niche for specialized contractors and consultants who are hired to clean up the resulting technical debt.

#8about 7 minutes

Using Chrome's built-in AI for on-device features

New Chrome APIs allow developers to leverage on-device AI models for features like text summarization and rewriting without relying on server-side processing.