Product is... Drunk on Claude and Picking a Fight With Devs
Hordes of drunken barbarians are at the gates, high on mead and artificial intelligence. Ten minutes to build a trojan unicorn of a product. Three weeks to get it past engineering.
Behind the walls sits everything a prototype never meets: security, compliance, audit trails, real customers and their real money. So are engineers guarding an exclusive club, or the only thing between us and the next big breach?
Rose Hitchcock holds the keys. She runs engineering at Freetrade, where the thing behind the gate is people's savings. She opens the evening with a short talk, then the room takes over.
With thanks to the legends at Synechron, our hosts, who are once again opening up their offices for the evening and generously laying on the food and drinks.
How the evening works
'Product is…' is part of the 'Tech is… Creating Conversations' family, and every one of them runs the same way: a room for big thinkers to think out loud, push back on each other and hear views they wouldn't usually come across. The talk gets things going. The conversation is the main event.
🎤 One short talk from Rose to get us started. About the idea, not anyone's product.
🍕 A break for food and drinks.
✋ A yes or no question to the room.
💬 Small groups, then the whole room, and everyone gets a say. No Q&A, because the second half is nothing but questions.
Who it is for
PMs, engineers, designers, researchers, data people… if you've ever shipped, or tried to ship, anything digital, you've got a view we'd love to hear.
The speaker
🎯 Rose Hitchcock, Director of Engineering, Freetrade · LinkedIn
Rose Hitchcock is an experienced technology leader with a career spanning nearly 20 years across consumer facing technology. She is passionate about building great engineering team cultures and exploring what changes AI will bring to the world of tech.
Your facilitator
🎯 Paul Woodley, Product & AI Ops Consultant, Spatial Clarity · LinkedIn
Paul runs Spatial Clarity, a product consultancy for teams whose customers sign up but never get to value. Since 2019 he's curated 'Tech is… Creating Conversations'. Still a music snob, still in charge of the playlist, still no requests.
About these evenings
Not CV clinics, not framework tips. Food for the mind, in a room of people who turned up for the same reason.