What This Session Was About
"Not technical enough" is one of the most effective ways to keep people out of rooms they belong in. This session was specifically built for the people who've heard that phrase — or said it to themselves — and showed them a concrete, low-stakes first step into building with AI.
GitHub Copilot changes what "technical" means. This session used it as the entry point: pair programming with an AI partner that fills in what you don't know, explains what it's doing, and makes the process of building feel like collaboration instead of gatekeeping.
Key Topics
- Why "not technical enough" is usually a story, not a fact
- How GitHub Copilot works as a pair programmer for beginners
- A live build from zero: creating something real in under 30 minutes
- Safe starting points: GitHub Codespaces, simple scripts, real use cases
- How to keep going after the session
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