Speaker Spotlight: Nele Lea Uhlemann – DIY or Delegate: A Custom Learning Skill for AI Coding Agents
Nele Lea Uhlemann built a custom Skill that balances AI delegation with developer learning – proving that AI can make you a better developer, not just a faster one.
We’re excited to announce Nele Lea Uhlemann as a speaker at Agentic Conf Hamburg on March 22nd!
About Nele Lea
Nele Lea Uhlemann is a Developer Relations Engineer at Fiberplane. Her passion is enabling collaboration among the multiple stakeholders involved in building and running software. Having switched sides from application development to infrastructure — and now to AI-native tooling — she brings a unique perspective on how developers work and introduce AI tooling to their workflows. At Fiberplane, she is part of a team rethinking how software gets built in the age of AI.
The Talk: DIY or Delegate: A Custom Learning Skill for AI Coding Agents
Nele Lea stopped learning. Not because she quit coding — she was shipping more than ever. But AI agents were writing the interesting parts, and she was just reviewing diffs she half-understood. Especially painful when picking up a new framework or library: AI agents would just figure it out for her, and she’d walk away having learned nothing.
So she built a custom Skill that forces the balance back. Before a project starts, you tell it what you want to learn. It then classifies every task: [DIY] tasks get broken down with specific learning goals and starting points, but you still do the research and write the code. [DELEGATE] tasks are implementation work outside that learning scope and get handed off to an agent. After each phase, it generates a quiz tied to your actual project code.
A demo of one custom skill — and proof that AI can make you a better developer, not just a faster one.
See Nele Lea Live
Catch this talk and many more at Agentic Conf Hamburg on March 22, 2026 at SAE Institute Hamburg.