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Climate Week NYC
Sep 20 - Sep 27
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gary Event 
With founders Dex Horthy (Humanlayer), Diptanu Choudhury (Tensorlake), Willem Pienaar (Cleric), Geoffrey Oxberry (S/w Enggr, Datadog).
Sep 09 (Wed) @ 06:00 PM       FREE
Datadog, 50 Fremont St, SF

 
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AI coding is quickly being productionized through software factories. But building a reliable software factory is still surprisingly difficult & fraught with challenges. How do you keep a fleet of agents productive instead of idle? When do you run agents locally versus in the cloud? How do you secure them, when do you bring a human in the loop, & how do you catch & learn from failures?

Datadog, Cleric, & the AAIF are teaming up to bring you a night of practitioner talks. Three engineers will each take one component of their factory & walk through what it took to build: the design they started with, what broke, & where they ended up. Orchestration, review, verification, security. Each talk covers at least one.

Each talk is 7 minutes with a few minutes of questions. Short & specific, think failure modes, war stories, & lessons learned.

Speakers

Dex Horthy, Humanlayer founder: Software factory design patterns

Geoffrey Oxberry, Senior Software Engineer at Datadog: Building performance tests into a software factory

Diptanu Choudhury, Tensorlake founder

Willem Pienaar, Cleric co-founder & CTO

Agenda

6:00 Doors, pizza, mingling

6:30 Welcome

6:40 Lightning talks, 7 minutes plus 5 minutes of Q&A each

7:10 Open floor, speakers stay for questions

8:00 Out

Details

Wednesday, September 9, 6:00 to 8:00 PM at the Datadog office in San Francisco. Space is limited & we read every registration, so tell us what you're building with agents!
 
 
 
 
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