AI Native Roadtrip - Boston
The AI Native Dev Community is going on a roadtrip!
AI is transforming software development and we’re excited (and curious!) about what comes next.
Are you building software with AI, perhaps using agentic workflows?
Or building tools that build software with AI?
To start answering these questions, we’re hitting the road this fall to connect with builders, founders, and developers shaping the future of AI-native development.
Each stop is an evening of lightning talks, real-world demos, and candid conversations about what it really takes to build with AI today.
🙌 Big thanks to Snyk for hosting, and shout-out to our amazing partners AI Collective and Tessl for helping make the magic happen!
Program
6:00pm – Doors open
6:15pm - Kick off and message from our partners
6:30pm – Talks (~3 × 20 min)
Spec Driven Development: Why your prompt chaos won’t scale - Macey Baker
MCP Mayhem: Fun Ways AI Agents Write Bad Code - Andrew Oates
7:30pm – Networking
8pm – Wrap-up
This session introduces Spec Driven Development (SDD) for AI coding, replacing ad-hoc prompts with human-readable specifications to improve code reliability, collaboration, and adaptability. Real-world examples show how SDD enables scalable, testable AI development, addresses challenges like spec drift, and supports smoother iteration and teamwork beyond freestyle prompting.
Macey Baker - Community Engineer at Tessl
As Tessl's Founding Community Engineer, Macey Baker is busy helping to build the future of AI-native development (and helping you build it too). Now an AI code generation obsessive, she got her start as an early employee at tech unicorn Intercom in San Francisco, before jumping the pond and roaming the London startup scene, working primarily in big data / ML houses. Some of her best friends are LLMs.
AI coding agents are often compared to junior developers --- but they're not! AI Agents are better than humans at some things, and worse at others. Let's discuss the unique security challenges of coding with AI, and how to maximize the quality and security of AI-generated code while improving your productivity.
Andrew Oates is a Distinguished Engineer at Snyk, where he leads the Open Source Security and Agentic Development organizations. Before Snyk, Andrew worked at Google, where he led infrastructure and security teams for Google Distributed Cloud and Stadia.
More speaker details coming soon…
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