Professional AI-First Engineering

I was an AI skeptic. Like any respectable engineer who has spent decades practicing the craft, I laughed at vibe coders, prompt engineers, Cursor, Claude, and the whole wave of AI hype. I assumed it would pass.

I was wrong.

This talk is a practical review of professional AI-first software engineering practices:
- Prompting best practices (vs AI pitfalls)
- Context engineering (including cross-repo)
- Building feedback loops
- MCP integration - best of🏅
- Agent design and orchestration
- SecOps - keep it safe and fast
- Architecture Observability via C4.puml
- Productivity Boosters: avoid waiting for AI

This is not a hype talk, nor a doom talk - it's a field report from the middle of the shift already happening around us. Well, to be precise, from 10 client companies at various AI-Coding adoption levels.

⭐️ Bring your own best practices and war stories to the debate!

Speaker
With 20 years of experience, Victor is a Java Champion who has trained thousands of engineers from over 150 companies(!) in a large variety of domains. The lessons learned from these sessions, he shared in countless educational (yet fun) talks, top-rated at major conferences, where he’s known as ‘the speaker with the soundboard’. In his spare time, Victor runs 1:1 individual coaching sessions and organizes online meetups for this community.
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The event will be live-streamed on YouTube, where it will remain recorded: https://youtube.com/live/lL2MOIawpBQ?feature=share