Dallas Software Developers Group

VIRTUAL ATTENDEES!!! IF YOU ARE ATTENDING VIRTUALLY, THEN PLEASE GO TO THIS LINK INSTEAD!
https://www.meetup.com/dallas-software-developers-meetup/events/315217846/

A NIGHT OF AI at Scale!
Running AI on your laptop is easy. Running it like an engineer is a different game. Many developers have wired AI into their workflow by now, a coding agent here, a chat window there. It works. But "it works on my machine" has always been where the real engineering starts, not where it ends.

This night is about what happens when you stop treating AI as a party trick and start treating it as infrastructure. Two talks, two altitudes of the same problem.

SPEAKERS:
Ben Potter - Product, Coder
Danny Thompson - Senior Developer Advocate, Atlassian

AI Always Compiles: Is your organization shipping THOSE results?
AI gives you output that runs. That's exactly what makes it dangerous. When the code compiles, the demo lands, and the answer sounds right, how do you know you're actually getting leverage instead of just moving faster toward the wrong thing? Danny breaks down the mental-model shift that separates developers who are genuinely scaling their impact with AI from those who are just generating more to review and the signals that tell you which one you are.

Self-Hosting Coding Agents: In the Homelab or the Enterprise
Many developers run coding agents like Claude Code directly on their laptops. It makes a great first impression, but it gets cumbersome and risky as usage scales. Ben walks through his personal Coder OSS setup in his homelab — running multiple agentic sessions in parallel, each in a secure, isolated development environment. From there we'll get into the patterns that make coding agents work at scale, whether you're self-hosting as a hobby or rolling this out across an enterprise. Come for the talks, stay for the conversation. Whether you're AI-curious or already deep in agentic workflows, you'll leave with a sharper sense of how to make this stuff actually scale.

Food and drinks provided.

IN-PERSON ATTENDEES!!! IF YOU ARE ATTENDING IN-PERSON, THEN PLEASE GO TO THIS LINK INSTEAD!
https://www.meetup.com/dallas-software-developers-meetup/events/312883811/

A NIGHT OF AI at Scale!
Running AI on your laptop is easy. Running it like an engineer is a different game. Many developers have wired AI into their workflow by now, a coding agent here, a chat window there. It works. But "it works on my machine" has always been where the real engineering starts, not where it ends.

This night is about what happens when you stop treating AI as a party trick and start treating it as infrastructure. Two talks, two altitudes of the same problem.

Special Thanks To Our Sponsor
Coder - Secure environments where devs and agents work in parallel.
https://coder.com/

SPEAKERS:
Ben Potter - Product, Coder
Danny Thompson - Senior Developer Advocate, Atlassian

AI Always Compiles: Is your organization shipping THOSE results?
AI gives you output that runs. That's exactly what makes it dangerous. When the code compiles, the demo lands, and the answer sounds right, how do you know you're actually getting leverage instead of just moving faster toward the wrong thing? Danny breaks down the mental-model shift that separates developers who are genuinely scaling their impact with AI from those who are just generating more to review and the signals that tell you which one you are.

Self-Hosting Coding Agents: In the Homelab or the Enterprise
Many developers run coding agents like Claude Code directly on their laptops. It makes a great first impression, but it gets cumbersome and risky as usage scales. Ben walks through his personal Coder OSS setup in his homelab — running multiple agentic sessions in parallel, each in a secure, isolated development environment. From there we'll get into the patterns that make coding agents work at scale, whether you're self-hosting as a hobby or rolling this out across an enterprise. Come for the talks, stay for the conversation. Whether you're AI-curious or already deep in agentic workflows, you'll leave with a sharper sense of how to make this stuff actually scale.

Food and drinks provided.