Pair Programming with AI: Writing Better PowerShell, Faster

PowerShell is the automation backbone for DBAs and IT Pros—but writing reliable, reusable scripts still takes time. In this session, you’ll learn how to use AI as a PowerShell pair programmer to build scripts faster while keeping full control.

We’ll walk through real DBA and infrastructure scenarios, using AI to generate PowerShell functions for administration, validation, and reporting/documentation. You’ll see how to prompt AI to produce clean PowerShell, then refine the output by adding parameter validation, error handling, logging, and help to make it production-ready.

This session focuses on practical workflows DBAs and IT Pros can immediately apply—showing how to use AI safely, iteratively, and effectively to scale automation across more servers, databases, and environments.

Use AI as a PowerShell pair programmer to accelerate DBA and IT automation tasks Write prompts that generate PowerShell aligned with DBA/IT operational best practices Refine AI-generated scripts by adding validation, error handling, logging, and reusable structure