Code Club #6: Developers Are Optional. Architects Aren't.
❤️ What happens when a systems architect who neither enjoys programming nor has much experience in it gets access to a sufficiently smart LLM?
A greenhouse hobby project that had been sitting around for years turned into a full IoT agronomy fleet management system with enterprise ambitions, not after months of conventional software development, but in a matter of weeks.
In this session, Domagoj Piškur will walk through how AI transformed a ten year side project into a serious, enterprise oriented FOSS system. The focus is not on prompt tricks or generated code for its own sake, but on architecture: defining the system, decomposing the problem, making technology choices, setting boundaries between components, and using AI to implement against a clear technical model.
We will look at what worked unexpectedly well, where the model needed strong architectural guidance, and which parts still required engineering judgement. The result may be uncomfortable for developers and encouraging for everyone else: with capable AI in the loop, knowing what to build, how the pieces should interact and where the failure modes are can matter more than being the person who types every line of code. 💙
🎤 Speaker:
Domagoj Piškur - Systems and Cloud Architect
Domagoj Piškur is a Systems and Cloud Architect, Microsoft Certified Trainer recognized among the top 100 rated MCTs worldwide, and a member of the CompTIA Instructor Network. Based at Algebra University in Zagreb, he has more than a decade of training experience across Azure, Windows Server, SQL, endpoint management, security and identity, built on two decades of hands on experience as an enterprise systems engineer. Through his company Invent, he runs Critical Skills Space, a community for IT professionals. Off the keyboard, his alter ego “Slavko” is an adventure motorcycle travel enthusiast. Self proclaimed jack of all trades, master of some.
🗓️ October 20th
🕕 18:00
📍 CroAI HQ, Zavrtnica 17, 4th floor, Zagreb
🔗 Registrations via Luma: [LUMA LINK]
If you build systems, design architectures, or are trying to understand what software engineering looks like when AI can handle more of the implementation layer, join us! 👀