Who builds the builders? - Mentoring Juniors & Coaching AI Agents

Who builds the builders?
LeadCraft Lisbon | The Engineering Leaders Meetup

For this edition, we're teaming up with LeadDev Lisbon and the Lisbon GenAI Community for an evening of two round tables. Both start from the same change: more and more of the code is now written by AI. One table looks at what that means for engineers who are just starting out, the other at the systems that now do the writing.

Agenda
Welcome and introductions
Opening words from LeadCraft, LeadDev Lisbon and the Lisbon GenAI Community, with a thank you to grow.inc, our host, and to Remote Crew and synvert xgeeks, our sponsors.

Round table 01: How to coach junior engineers in the age of AI
Catarina Cardão, AI Manager and Trainer @ ISLA Gaia, Lusófona University
Luís Oliveira, Staff Engineer @ xgeeks
Leandro César Silva, Director of Software Engineering @ Wellhub

• The tasks juniors used to learn on were the first to be automated. The table discusses where juniors now build the judgement they used to get from writing and fixing that code, what a good first year looks like, and what senior engineers and managers need to change in the way they coach.

Round table 02: How to build a software factory
Niko Roberts, Director of Engineering @ Airtasker
Telmo Felgueira, ML Engineering Manager @ Loka
Tiago Pombeiro, Software Development Manager @ Amazon

• When agents write more of the code, the engineering work moves back a layer: specs, harnesses and guardrails. The table discusses what teams are actually building around their agents, how they check what comes out, and how the engineer's role changes when designing that system becomes the job.

📅 Thursday, November 26th, 6:30 PM
📍 grow.inc, Av. Almirante Reis 65, Lisbon
🎟️ Free. Spots are limited.

(If you register and can no longer make it, please cancel your RSVP so someone on the waitlist can take your spot.)