Marlene Mhangami

Marlene is a Senior Developer Advocate specializing in Python and AI at Microsoft, a computer scientist, keynote speaker and explorer. She is the current co-chair of the Association for Computing Machinery(ACM) practitioner board, was the previous vice chair of the Python Software Foundation and led the first PyCon Africa.

A Practical Guide To Agentic Coding For Django Developers

Keynote

AI Agents have become increasingly good at generating code. Developers who know how to use agentic tools as they program can increase their productivity significantly. In this talk, Marlene will share how Django Developers can get the most out of coding agents in their development workflows. She'll walk through how she uses MCP (Model Context Protocol), Agent Skills and Instructions to create semi-autonomous agents that can complete multi-step tasks end-to-end. She'll also walk through best practices for validating the output of agents end to end with unit tests and Playwright. As part of this talk we'll also discuss the societal implications of AI on developers and how we can best prepare for the future thats both coming and already here.