Community archive
Sessions
Notes from every gathering—ideas, links, and the useful edges of our conversations.
Session log
08 recorded sessions- 08AI 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
- 07Job 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
- 06Photography, responsible AI, and generative mediaOmid, Soheil, Arash, and Sirwan discuss photography, responsible AI, Kurdish data, filmmaking, farming, and personalised learning.Read notes
- 05Agentic 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
- 04Ontology, 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
- 03AI, 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
- 02First 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
- 01RelaunchOmid 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