Behind the Vault Door: An AI + SDLC Dinner

​Most rooms about AI in engineering are full of slides. This one isn't.

​We've taken over the Vault Room at Andiamo in Banca, ten minutes from the AI DevSummit floor, for a small dinner. Twelve engineering leaders comparing notes on what's actually landed with AI in the SDLC, and what hasn't. Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, internal agents, eval harnesses, review bots, the works. The honest version, not the keynote version.

​Why this dinner, why now

​Every CTO and VP Eng we talk to is running roughly the same set of experiments. Rolling out coding assistants. Standing up internal agents. Rewriting parts of the review process.

​A few hours and a good meal should fix some of that.

​The format

• ​12 seats, peer-level, carefully curated

• ​Chatham House Rule- share the ideas, not the names

• ​No pitches, no demos, no decks

​Who's in the room CTOs, VPs of Engineering and Heads of Platform at companies taking AI in the SDLC seriously.

​Who's hosting The team at Hud. We build runtime context for AI coding agents, but this dinner isn't about us. It's about the room.

​Dinner's on us. See you at the table.