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# How to Copy & Paste: Effectively working with strangers on the internet


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 19, 2024
- **Time:** 11:40–12:10 (30 min)
- **Room:** Virtual Stage 1
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Description

Since the dawn of Forums, CodeProject and Stack Overflow - and more recently with Github, Youtube and blog posts - we've been building applications with strangers on the internet, copying and pasting other developers' code. And now with the advent of ChatGPT, GitHub CoPilot and other AI solutions, it's easier than ever to use code somebody (or something) else wrote... without necessarily understanding the code completely. We all copy and paste code, but a senior developer will often approach the task in different way to someone more junior. We'll look at how to level-up our Ctrl+V game through understanding the problem, assessing suitability and adapting code samples to meet our needs. Together, we can build something better and quicker... so long as we know what we're building.

## Speaker

### [Joe Glombek](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@joe-glombek)

Senior .NET developer and lover of adventure


## Related talks at this congress

- [Livecoding with AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/202-livecoding-with-ai) — Rainer Stropek
- [GitHub Copilot Beyond the Basics - 10 Ways to Elevate Your Coding](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/366-github-copilot) — lgonta, Yuliya Khadasevich
- [GitHub Copilot: The Smartest Way to Code](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/11-github-copilot-the) — Lukas Durovsky
- [Grappling With Clunky Old Software? Start by Understanding What’s Inside!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/248-grappling-with) — Luc Perard