Gen AI: Design is the New Code
Details
Please join us for the Orange County ACM Chapter's bimonthly evening program series.
Gen AI: Design is the New Code
Agenda
6:30 PM Doors Open & Networking
7:00 PM Announcements, Presentation, and Q&A
8:30 PM Meeting Adjourns
Event Details
Are you struggling to keep up with the breakneck pace of AI technology while ensuring your code remains high-quality? It’s time to stop treating Generative AI like a search engine and start treating it as a powerful engineering partner.
In this talk, we will introduce the Elephant Goldfish Model—a design-first framework built to help you reclaim your time and architectural rigor. We will explore why "design is the new code" and how to shift your engineering focus "left" to maintain control in an AI-saturated world.
You will learn how to:
- Grow the Elephant: Build rich, context-heavy AI sessions to explore complex problems without writing a single line of code.
- Implement the Goldfish Protocol: Use fresh AI sessions to ruthlessly stress-test your design assumptions and setup guardrails before implementation begins.
- Exercise Real Judgment: Master the art of managing AI agents to handle the "toil," allowing you to reserve your human expertise for the deep thinking that truly moves projects forward.
Whether you are looking to scale your productivity, reduce technical debt, or simply find a more effective way to collaborate with AI, this session provides a battle-tested roadmap for the modern software engineer. Join me to discover how you can shift from managing code to managing intent, ensuring your designs remain the true source of truth.
Speaker
Elise Ewing is a Senior Software Engineer on the Google Ads Data Manager team in Irvine, where she focuses on scaling and optimizing backend systems. Her technical work centers on capacity management and load balancing of pipelines running on Cloud Data Fusion, Google’s ETL runtime platform. She is also passionate about developer productivity and is currently co-leading the development of the Elephant-Goldfish Model (EGM) extension to enhance engineering design processes. Before Google, Elise worked as a financial software consultant for middle and back office solutions at Wall Street broker dealers.
Beyond her day-to-day engineering responsibilities, Elise is a committed community builder and serves as the lead for the Women@Irvine, a company-sponsored special interest group within Women@Google. She also established the yearly Swag-Swap event to encourage her coworkers to reduce waste by re-homing their unused possessions, rather than throwing them away.
Co-sponsors
This event is co-sponsored by the IEEE Orange County Computer Society, SIGAI OC, and the IEEE OC Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS).
Venue & Parking
This meeting will be held at the Knobbe Martens' Irvine offices. Parking validation will be provided to attendees.
