Everyone’s talking about AI coding assistants, but most developers are stuck in ‘vibe coding‘, hoping the AI will figure things out while they watch.
The result? Inconsistent quality, loss of control, and the nagging feeling that you’re not really leveraging AI’s full potential.
The Agentic Developer Workshop with Marco Heimeshoff takes you from passive prompt-hoping to deliberate agentic mastery.
You’ll learn to architect AI workflows that multiply your productivity while maintaining the craftsmanship and robustness you refuse to compromise on.
What makes this different? You’re learning from a Domain-Driven Design expert who brings 15+ years of experience helping developers at various Fortune 500 and hundreds of other organizations tackle complex domains.
This isn’t generic AI tips – it’s a craftsperson-to-craftsperson transfer of hard-won knowledge about governing complexity in AI-augmented development.
You’ll leave with a recipe and the principles behind it, so you can adapt as the landscape evolves.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, you will:
- Architect agentic workflows that maintain code quality and project coherence across the entire application lifecycle
- Master the cadence between thinking and coding (knowing when to step back, reflect, and re-engage with your AI assistant)
- Build self-improving development environments where your tools continuously optimize themselves through skills, agents, and meta-optimization patterns
- Navigate the landscape of agent workflows, commands, plugins, and skills
- Apply Modeling to AI interactions, treating complex domain modeling with LLMs as the collaborative role-playing game it truly is.
The Trainer
Marco Heimeshoff is a Software developer, Domain-Driven Design trainer, coach, and consultant who has worked with organizations ranging from Intuit, Lego, Mercedes, Spotify, and Starbucks to hundreds of smaller companies.
Marco co-founded the KanDDDinsky conference and VirtualDDD.com.
His development philosophy centers on lifelong learning, focus on language, and empathy.
Target Audience
The Agentic Developer Workshop helps senior developers and tech leads alike. We go from AI zero to competent.
Ideal for:
- Senior developers looking to multiply their productivity systematically without sacrificing code quality
- Tech leads designing AI-augmented workflows for their teams
- Individual contributors who want to achieve ‘one-person company’ leverage
- Teams and organizations looking to introduce AI into development without creating chaos, inconsistency, or technical debt.
- Anyone working in software development, regardless of tech stack.
Prerequisites?
None for AI knowledge – this workshop starts from zero and builds to competent.
Topics
- Going Beyond the Hype
- The Architecture of Agentic Development
- The Thinking-Coding Cadence
- The “God” Mode (Meta-Optimization): Tools That Improve Themselves
- Scaling and Evolution.
Agenda
Session 1 – Foundations & Architecture
- The Vibe Coding Problem & Going Beyond the Hype
- Interactive diagnosis: Where are you on the AI adoption spectrum?
- The landscape of agent workflows
- Hands-on: Setting up your first agentic development environment.
Session 2 – The Configuration Hierarchy
- Deep dive: Claude.md, Agents, Skills, Commands, and Plugins
- Exercise: Organizing your development context
- Practice: Building your first custom skill.
Session 3 – Master the Model
- The Thinking-Coding Cadence
- Domain modeling as collaborative roleplaying
- Exercise: Detach, Reflect, Formulate, Re-engage in action
- Your responsibility matrix at different AI adoption levels.
Session 4 – Meta-Optimization
- Meta-Optimization & Your Path Forward
- Building self-improving tools: Skill-Creator Skills & Agent Optimization
- Final challenge: Design your personal agentic workflow
- Creating your 30-day adoption roadmap.
How it works
This four-half-day workshop follows a craftsperson-to-craftsperson approach. We balance theory with immediate practice, ensuring you’re never just watching – you’re doing.
The rhythm of each session:
- Concept introduction – Understanding the principle and why it matters
- Live demonstration – Seeing the technique in action
- Hands-on practice – Applying it yourself with guidance
- Reflection & questions – Consolidating learnings
- Homework.
Final Challenge: On Day 2, you’ll design and begin implementing your personal agentic development workflow – a system tailored to your projects, tech stack, and working style. You’ll leave with something immediately applicable, not just theoretical knowledge.
Post-Workshop Support: Access to a community channel for questions and continued learning, plus a comprehensive reference guide of all patterns and techniques covered.
