AI-First Engineering: Training Your Long-Time Devs To Leverage AI (without “Vibe Coding”)

​Another name for this could be, "AI-First Engineering (For People Who Can Still Write SQL By Hand)"

​Look, AI is obviously powerful. But long-time devs have different needs than "vibe coders," or people who aren't regularly pushing code to production.

​Ash Tilawat is the Head of Product & Learning at Gauntlet, and developed the program that taught AI-first engineering to long-time devs at Trilogy, Automattic, Zapier, and more.

​In this fireside chat, he'll open up his notebook to talk about:

• ​​His AI-first engineering framework, that trains developers to be lifelong learners of AI, despite rapid change

• ​How to cultivate the kind of AI-first mindset that has your team shipping features in hours rather than days

• ​What he's seeing in the trenches NOW (the use of RAG pipelines, AI workflows/agents, multi-agent systems, etc.)

• ​And more...

​If you’re thinking about how to help your devs get the most out of AI, in a way that’s suitable for experienced engineers, this is your talk.

​Bring your toughest questions – there'll be plenty of time for audience Q&A or 1-1 chats with Ash and other members of the Gauntlet team.

​Host: Ethan Brooks is the author of The Austin Business Review, which is focused on helping later-stage founders and operators in ATX connect with the people they should know around the city.