AI-First Engineering: Closing The Skills Gap On Your Dev Team

​You know your engineering team can be getting more from AI. But how?

​Everyone's chattering about "vibe coding," and every week there's a new tool or company making headlines on X. But long-time engineers pushing real code to production need something deeper, and more stable, and more evergreen.

​Ash Tilawat is the head of product & learning at Gauntlet, and taught AI-first engineering to long-time developers 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 next year, in a way that’s suitable for experienced engineers, working in established companies, 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, operators, and leaders in ATX connect with the people they should know around the city.