The Ember List

A Practitioner's Guide to AI-Assisted Coding [ONLINE-ONLY]

Tuesday, October 6 · 6:30 PM – 8 PM · Online event · Mountain View

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**ONLINE-ONLY:** [Same version 2 as the last talk] You shipped it in a weekend. Can you fix it at 3 AM when you get a customer call? AI writes the code now. The hard part is trusting what you can't fully read — whether you're an engineer signing off on 2,000 lines a day, a founder whose whole product was written by something else, or a student wondering how much you're learning. The mindset shift we need: From being an AI-assisted Developer-> To AI-assisted System Architect A practitioner's talk on building the harness: how to run agents hard without ending up with a system you can't defend. A little bit of spec-driven development and context engineering -- what's the best tool for you ? \- If you never had to stop it\, that's not a clean run — it's one nobody watched\. \- Asking nicely doesn't always work\. Constraints hold only when something checks them\. \- Go only as fast as you can see\. How big a task\, how often you look\, when to stop trying — all the same call. \- Your corrections are an asset\. The same fix you make by hand every other week should become something the agent stops needing. \- What not to hand over\. Speed is worthless if you're moving in the wrong directi

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