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Sessions

Notes from every gathering—ideas, links, and the useful edges of our conversations.

Session log

15 recorded sessions
  1. 153 people at the tableKurdish ASR, Life After AI, and New OpportunitiesKurdish ASR progress, dataset quality, AI agents, future careers, farming, YouTube, and new technology.Read notes
  2. 142 people at the tableKurdish OCR, authentic data, and a first training experimentSirwan, Saman, and Arash discuss Asosoft OCR, AI-assisted cybersecurity, and a collection pipeline for authentic Ardalani data before a first one-epoch training experiment.Read notes
  3. 135 people at the tableCardputer and a Kurdish Ardalani datasetSirwan, Omid, Pooria, Saman, Arash, and Foad discuss recognising Kurdish numbers on Cardputer and building a text and audio dataset for Kurdish Ardalani.Read notes
  4. 123 people at the tableFrontier models, practical AI, and TinyMLSirwan, Pooria, and Arash discuss frontier models, Jev, the engineering behind AI coding, and a possible TinyML experiment on ESP32, with Omid joining at the beginning.Read notes
  5. 112 people at the tableAI experiments, computer vision, and ESP32 CardputerSirwan, Omid, and Saman discuss the fruit fly connectome, Jev, computer vision, ESP32 Cardputer, and learning through interactive simulations.Read notes
  6. 102 people at the tableJob markets, AI-native consulting, content creation, and focusSaman, Omid, and Sirwan discuss the UK and Swedish job markets, AI-native legacy modernisation, YouTube content creation, and the role of lifestyle in focus.Read notes
  7. 093 people at the tableKurdish speech-to-text, AI code review, and cybersecuritySaman, Omid, Foad, and Sirwan discuss Kurdish speech-to-text data, AI models and code review, frontier-model cybersecurity, and European jobs and living costs.Read notes
  8. 082 people at the tableAI consequences, human context, and staff engineeringOmid, Pooria, and Sirwan discuss recent AI experiments, staff engineering, the negative side of AI, and the value of human context in large codebases.Read notes
  9. 073 people at the tableJob markets, agentic coding, and harness engineeringOmid, Saman, Arash, and Sirwan discuss the UK and Swedish job markets, Claude Code workflows, loop and harness engineering, Hermes, and personal knowledge bases.Read notes
  10. 063 people at the tablePhotography, responsible AI, and generative mediaOmid, Soheil, Arash, and Sirwan discuss photography, responsible AI, Kurdish data, filmmaking, farming, and personalised learning.Read notes
  11. 053 people at the tableAgentic SDLC and the future of software engineeringPooria, Soheil, Omid, and Sirwan discuss the future of agentic SDLC, deterministic tooling, and the limits of current AI reasoning.Read notes
  12. 043 people at the tableOntology, open-weight models, and AI’s limitsPooria, Omid, Soheil, and Sirwan discuss ontology, open-weight models, AI’s limitations, human-centred work, and AI-assisted software delivery.Read notes
  13. 032 people at the tableAI, consistency, and evidence-led ideasFoad, Saman, and Sirwan discuss AI as a learning accelerator, the changing value of software engineering skills, steady progress, and testing ideas with evidence.Read notes
  14. 025 people at the tableFirst full session of the 2026 relaunchA wider table. AI as the through-line — what's changed, where the openings are, what newcomers are up against, and the books worth reading.Read notes
  15. 011 person at the tableRelaunchOmid and Sirwan on how AI flattened the software development paradigm, what onboarding looks like now, and the rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer.Read notes