Hacker Dojo

ONLINE-ONLY: [Same version 2 as the last talk]

You shipped it in a weekend.
Can you fix it at 3 AM when you get a customer call?

AI writes the code now. The hard part is trusting what you can't fully read —
whether you're an engineer signing off on 2,000 lines a day, a founder
whose whole product was written by something else, or a student wondering how
much you're learning.

The mindset shift we need:
From being an AI-assisted Developer-> To AI-assisted System Architect

A practitioner's talk on building the harness: how to run agents hard without
ending up with a system you can't defend. A little bit of spec-driven development and context engineering -- what's the best tool for you ?

- If you never had to stop it, that's not a clean run — it's one nobody watched.
- Asking nicely doesn't always work. Constraints hold only when something checks them.
- Go only as fast as you can see. How big a task, how often you look, when to
stop trying — all the same call.
- Your corrections are an asset. The same fix you make by hand every other week should
become something the agent stops needing.
- What not to hand over. Speed is worthless if you're moving in the wrong
direction, and delegating the work you haven't learned yet has a cost that
shows up later.

Not a Cursor or Claude Code tutorial . Not a 10x promise. Bring the failure you couldn't explain and everyone will try to find a way to solve it.

Hacker Dojo is entering a pivotal chapter, and we need the community in the room for this one. We have a new facility!

For 17 years, this has been the place where founders met co-founders, engineers learned new skills, and ideas became real. Staff will share an important update on where things stand and what comes next, including a new initiative that will shape Hacker Dojo's future.

This is a meeting for community members who care about what happens here. If you've ever built something, learned something, or found your people at Hacker Dojo, this is the moment to show up.

What to expect:

• A direct update on where things stand
• A look at what's next for Hacker Dojo
• How you can be part of shaping it
• Open floor for questions and ideas

Your presence matters more than you think. Let's talk about it together.