C++ vs intuition : Gleb Gladilov

Hello Everyone,
For this meetup, we'll have a presentation by Gleb Gladilov about common C++ pitfalls.

Gleb is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Intel, building machine-learning compilers for Intel NPUs on top of MLIR/LLVM. A long-time open-source enthusiast, he has spent over a decade working in C++ across compilers, low-level optimization, computer vision, and high-performance computing—and still enjoys uncovering the language’s sharp edges.

C++ is full of delightful traps: code that looks obvious, may even compile cleanly, but then does something… else. In this talk we’ll tour a collection of minimal examples where C++ behavior turns out to be counter-intuitive, covering operators, initialization, constexpr, and a few other sharp edges along the way. We’ll unpack what’s really happening in hope of having fun and avoiding the “wait, what?” moments in production. Slides include links to extra material (Compiler Explorer snippets, articles, and curated talks) for anyone who wants to go further.