

Builder Night featuring Adam Bender (Google)
This week's AI Builder Night features Adam Bender!
Adam Bender is a Principal Software Engineer at Google, where he leads enterprise platform strategy and helps more than 2,000 engineers build at scale. Over his 13 years at Google he has shaped developer-experience teams, created the company’s most popular Tech Lead training program, and co-authored work on Google’s engineering practices and culture.
Adam will share his perspective on “Vibe Coding in the Enterprise”—how large-scale organizations can stay curious, experimental, and human even as AI transforms the engineering stack.
A longtime Santa Cruz resident, Adam writes about the craft of engineering at codeistruth.com, exploring how creativity, decision-making, and AI are changing the way great software gets made.