How AI is changing the way software gets built in 2026, told firsthand by the people building it in Silicon Valley.
Software engineering has been transformed this year. Not gradually, suddenly. Claude Code, Cursor, and agentic workflows no longer just autocomplete lines; they write entire features, debug across codebases, and ship pull requests. Junior engineers produce at senior-level velocity, senior engineers operate at staff-level scope, and small teams now ship what once took thirty people.
This is not a future trend. It has already happened. Each week this summer, one practitioner who is living that change joins us to share how their day-to-day engineering work has shifted, because the field our students are entering has already changed.
Eight sessions on Thursdays between May 28 and July 23. Each session is a 30-minute talk followed by 15 minutes of Q&A.
| # | Date | Speaker | Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 28 | Daniel Svonava | Superlinked |
| 2 | June 11 | Chris Wang | OneFourTwentyFour |
| 3 | June 18 | Zain Hasan | Together.AI |
| 4 | June 25 | Patrick Devine | Ollama |
| 5 | July 2 | Kalpit Singh | SingleStore |
| 6 | July 9 | Jackie Lee | Science VR |
| 7 | July 16 | Richard Hsu | Nuro |
| 8 | July 23 | Ravi Rohith | Meta |
Build systems that build systems
Daniel Svonava · CEO, Superlinked
Our journey from AI-assisted to AI-first development on a complex product that is all about reliability and performance: a new open source AI model inference engine.
Learn about our development process, project management, and the internal tooling that makes it possible to productively burn billions of tokens per engineer monthly, weekly, and even daily.
About the speaker: Daniel Svonava is CEO of Superlinked, an Index-backed sovereign inference startup. Previously an ML Tech Lead at YouTube Ads, he joins us to share practical tips on agentic software development and broader trends in the industry.
Tales From The Trenches
Chris Wang · Founder, OneFourTwentyFour
Chris’ consulting work varies widely — from Rails upgrades to sunsetting products to hiring initial engineering teams. He has seen hundreds of workflows belonging to developers he has worked with, interviewed, and learned from. This talk will dive into his views on the current state of interviewing, developer workflows, and the best & worst practices when using (or not using) AI.
About the speaker: Chris is a backend/infra consultant and founder of OneFourTwentyFour. Prior, he worked at SF-based startups that are now acquired by companies like Elastic and Checkr. When offline, he’s biking, backpacking, breaking things, and a bunch of other activities that don’t start with a “b”.
Shipping production code daily with AI tools.
Hands-on technical founders, not just vision people.
Applying frontier research to real products.