As the world shifts towards AI engineering being the norm rather than the frontier we gather in this workshop to learn both from Oliver and from each other. Oliver will prepare a curated journey from the age of copy pasting out of ChatGPTs web UI, to the release of claude code, journeying through concepts such as Ralphing and Gas Town and into what Oliver believes is a healthy approach to using AI when developing software you get paid to deliver. We will delve into what is hype and parabole and what is a hard kernel you can expect to carry over as the models and the various harnesses evolve. Topics such as using credo, self reinforcing bash scripts and core tools such as Tidewave will be covered in-depth. Life has changed a lot since we had to pump the context full of usage rules and tightly worded specs into what the models are capable of now. This workshop is perfect both for the curious beginner and for the hardened AI engineer that want to use this as a forum to share experiences with eachother. There are still adherents to the idea of spec driven development even as Olivers belief in them lessening and all voices will be heard and respected. This is as much a forum as a workshop, however there will be a core of curated content intended to elevate people who are just starting to dip their toe into agentic development. Attending the workshop requires an active subscription with a coding agent provider like claude, openai codex, gemini cli or zai coder. The open weight models are quite affordable these days, so for the duration of the workshop you will probably get along with just $20 to one of the various providers out there. Jose Valim has graciously agreed to sponsoring free Tidewave Pro for a week for all attendants of the workshop.

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