OnboardIAnding nuevos recursos (Python Montevideo)
May 28, 2026 (30 minutes)
A short talk for the Python Montevideo meetup about rethinking onboarding: what if it didn't start on day one, but the day before? I shared an approach I used on a real JavaScript project—preparing "Day 0 for task 1" Markdown documents that gave a new teammate (and their AI) all the context needed to be productive from the very first day.
What if onboarding didn't start on day one, but the day before? In this talk for the Python Montevideo meetup I shared an approach I used on a JavaScript project to get a new teammate productive from day one: preparing "Day 0 for task 1" documents in Markdown, packed with the context their AI needed to actually move the task forward.
The problem: onboarding that doesn't scale
On a project where integrating new members was critical to the team's progress, we faced the all-too-common problem of ineffective onboarding. Traditionally, knowledge and processes were transmitted verbally, which led to inconsistent and misinterpreted information.
The approach: documenting context in Markdown
To tackle this, I started documenting everything in a .md file. Each new task was handed off together with its own document, providing clear, detailed instructions and the surrounding context. Delivering this .md alongside the assigned work significantly reduced ambiguity and the cognitive load of learning new procedures—making the ramp-up into the team far smoother.
Why it matters with AI
These "Day 0" documents do double duty: they orient the human and feed the person's AI assistant the context it needs to advance the task. Good onboarding context is, increasingly, good AI context.
This was one of two talks of the evening, alongside Riccardo Inojosa's "De CoT y MCP a agentes: roadmap de IA para devs Python".
