Clay Tech Talks: How Better Builders Create Better Agents
We all know that most agents demo well but far fewer survive contact with production.
At Clay, we believe the best engineering lessons come from showing the messy middle rather than focusing on the polished result.
It’s why we’re spending all summer building our products in public on YouTube and also why we're throwing this event.
On a Wednesday evening at Clay HQ, two of our engineers will go deep on real systems they've built and what broke along the way.
You’ll hear from:
Sam Shulman on Leveraging AI to learn from teammates
How Sam built agent skills that clone our strongest human code reviewers, a marketplace to share these skills, and what it taught us about scaling judgment.
Ryan Chang on Principles for agentic experience
The principles Clay follows when building agentic products, and the hard-won lessons behind making agents that people actually trust and use.
Both talks include live demos and the raw details. We want to recreate the feeling you get going to drinks with a team and doing a postmortem on a product ship… except we're inviting all of you into the discussion.
Then we keep talking. Stick around for food, drinks, and continued conversation with engineers building this stuff and the people who care about it as much as you do.
The Agenda
6:00–6:30: Arrival, food, drinks & music
6:30–7:15: Tech talks + Q&A
7:15–8:30: Happy hour & networking
Space is limited to a small, thoughtfully selected group of engineers and builders. We want enough people to fill the room, but we’ll keep it intimate enough that the conversations actually go somewhere. See you there 🙂