Lance Larsen
Microsoft MVP, Chief Visionary Officer (CVO) of Holosoft™ as well avid Community Speaker -and- president of MADdotNET, Madison Wisconsin's .NET developer community!
Middleton, Wisconsin, United States
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Lance Larsen is a Microsoft MVP, a founder and the Chief Visionary Officer (CVO) of Holosoft™ (Holosoft.com) as well avid Community Speaker -and- president of MADdotNET, Madison Wisconsin’s .NET developer community (MADdotNET.com)!
At Holosoft™, we’ve thrown ourselves into the deep end of Mixed Reality, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (MR/AR/VR). Our mission is to evangelize what we’ve learned about available technologies, emerging technologies and the techniques we use to write beautiful applications.
Holosoft™ does application design and consulting – so please reach out to us with any questions you may have, or if there is any way with which we may assist you.
Lance is also one of the original organizers of That Conference (ThatConference.com) – the original Summer Camp for Geeks in the Wisconsin Dells!
Bachelor’s in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Master’s Degree in Computer Science & Applied Mathematics from Illinois Tech (IIT) with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Cognition.
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From Vibe Coding to Production Coding: Spec-Driven Development with VS Code AI
When AI first showed up in our editors, most of us were "vibe coding" - poking at prompts, letting the model autocomplete half a file, and hoping it compiled.
Fun? Absolutely.
Production-ready? Not so much.
This talk tracks the evolution from that exploratory phase to a disciplined, repeatable workflow where AI is a serious part of the engineering toolchain rather than a clever autocomplete toy.
We will tour the latest AI-powered capabilities in VS Code: custom chat modes, custom prompts, custom instructions, MCP backends, Agent Mode, and the new "Plan" workflows that turn vague ideas into concrete, multi-step changes. From there, we will zoom in on Spec-Driven Development (SDD) with GitHub's Spec Kit - treating specifications as the single source of truth for both humans and AI coding agents. You will see how specs bootstrap repositories, generate plans and tasks, guide code and test generation, and evolve under version control alongside your codebase.
By the end, you will have a practical blueprint for moving from ad-hoc "let's see what the model does" sessions to a structured, spec-first development loop. We will focus on how to keep intent, implementation, and AI behavior aligned - so your next AI-assisted feature ships faster, with fewer surprises, and is something you are not afraid to maintain six months later.
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Lance Larsen
Microsoft MVP, Chief Visionary Officer (CVO) of Holosoft™ as well avid Community Speaker -and- president of MADdotNET, Madison Wisconsin's .NET developer community!
Middleton, Wisconsin, United States
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