AI Talks - Justine Gehring: Beyond the chatbot, beyond the IDE: AI in my CI/CD
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Software Crafters Montréal
Online
Link available to attendees
Ready to join in on the fun?
Welcome to our eight-week series on practical uses of AI for software crafters. Each week, we will have an expert talking about their learnings in this new a rapidly evolving field. If you're excited to learn how these new tools can enhance and support your skills, please join us!
This series is hosted in collaboration with Calgary Software Crafters.
https://www.meetup.com/calgary-software-crafters
Description:
AI’s potential in software development extends far beyond code generation or chatbot-style assistants in the IDE. This talk explores how five families of AI capabilities (Learning & Onboarding, Coding Assistants, Automation & Agents, Planning, and Data Exploration & Synthesis) can transform the entire CI/CD lifecycle.
Whether it’s assessing processes, building pipelines, planning large-scale VM migrations, or summarizing an ocean of information, we’ll talk about how to identify high-impact integration points often untapped by chatbot or IDE based AI integrations. Centering AI integration around developers throughout the entire lifecycle of planning, coding, deployment, and monitoring unlocks greater ROI than simply generating more lines of code.
Bio:
Expert in artificial intelligence at Gologic in Montreal, she designs and deploys AI solutions that optimize IT team productivity, notably by automating code generation, migrations, impact analysis, and infrastructure monitoring.
She previously worked at Moderne, where she integrated AI tools for large-scale code modernization and led a strategic partnership with Mila. Trained at McGill and Mila, she specialized in Machine Learning for Code (ML4Code) and neural networks for graphs, exploring code generation in complex and dynamic environments.
A guest on the "AI at Work" and "Maintainable Software" podcasts, she shared her insights on large-scale refactoring, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), and the importance of human oversight in AI systems. She is co-author of the book AI for Mass-Scale Code Refactoring and Analysis (O’Reilly, 2024), frequently speaks at conferences (ICSME, Devnexus, ÜberConf, TechDebt), and serves on the program committees for TechDebt 2024 and 2025. She will lead the industry track in 2026.
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Ready to join in on the fun?
Platform Sponsors
Don't let broken lines of code, busted API calls, and crashes ruin your app. Join the 4M developers and 90K organizations who consider Sentry “not bad” when it comes to application monitoring. Use code “guild” for 3 free months of the team plan.
https://sentry.io
Torc is a community-first platform bringing together remote-first software engineer and developer opportunities from across the globe. Join a network that’s all about connection, collaboration, and finding your next big move — together.
Join our community today!
AI Talks - Justine Gehring: Beyond the chatbot, beyond the IDE: AI in my CI/CD
Hosted by
Software Crafters Montréal
Online
Link available to attendees
Welcome to our eight-week series on practical uses of AI for software crafters. Each week, we will have an expert talking about their learnings in this new a rapidly evolving field. If you're excited to learn how these new tools can enhance and support your skills, please join us!
This series is hosted in collaboration with Calgary Software Crafters.
https://www.meetup.com/calgary-software-crafters
Description:
AI’s potential in software development extends far beyond code generation or chatbot-style assistants in the IDE. This talk explores how five families of AI capabilities (Learning & Onboarding, Coding Assistants, Automation & Agents, Planning, and Data Exploration & Synthesis) can transform the entire CI/CD lifecycle.
Whether it’s assessing processes, building pipelines, planning large-scale VM migrations, or summarizing an ocean of information, we’ll talk about how to identify high-impact integration points often untapped by chatbot or IDE based AI integrations. Centering AI integration around developers throughout the entire lifecycle of planning, coding, deployment, and monitoring unlocks greater ROI than simply generating more lines of code.
Bio:
Expert in artificial intelligence at Gologic in Montreal, she designs and deploys AI solutions that optimize IT team productivity, notably by automating code generation, migrations, impact analysis, and infrastructure monitoring.
She previously worked at Moderne, where she integrated AI tools for large-scale code modernization and led a strategic partnership with Mila. Trained at McGill and Mila, she specialized in Machine Learning for Code (ML4Code) and neural networks for graphs, exploring code generation in complex and dynamic environments.
A guest on the "AI at Work" and "Maintainable Software" podcasts, she shared her insights on large-scale refactoring, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), and the importance of human oversight in AI systems. She is co-author of the book AI for Mass-Scale Code Refactoring and Analysis (O’Reilly, 2024), frequently speaks at conferences (ICSME, Devnexus, ÜberConf, TechDebt), and serves on the program committees for TechDebt 2024 and 2025. She will lead the industry track in 2026.
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