AI Native Roadtrip - New York
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 Clay for hosting, and shout-out to our amazing partners Tessl for helping make the magic happen!
Program
6:00pm – Doors open
6:30pm - Kick off and message from our partners
6:45pm – Talks (~3 × 20 min)
Spec Driven Development: Why your prompt chaos won’t scale - Macey Baker
Vibe Driving Development (VDD) and Friends: Demystifying the “-Driven” Buzz with Itamar Friedman
More speakers to be announced soon…
8pm – Networking
9pm – 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.
Recently, everyone’s hyped about Vibe Driving Development (VDD)—is that the future?
Alongside it, there are three other “-driven” concepts worth knowing: TDD, RDD, and SDD. In this talk, we’ll demystify them all, explore when each makes sense, and see how together they can boost both code quality and team vibes.
Itamar Friedman - Co-Founder & CEO @ Qodo, the leader in the emerging code integrity space.
Prior to that, Itamar was the co-founder and CTO of Visualead, acquired by Alibaba Group. As a director at Alibaba, he led teams to create innovative ML-based B2C and B2D applications and tools used by millions.
Itamar holds a BSc & MSc in Electrical Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from the Technion, majoring in Machine Learning and Computer Vision.
More speaker details coming soon…
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