The Human Is the Loop: Planning and Shipping Code with Claude Code and GitHub

Join us for a meetup dedicated to AI coding feedback loops! Petar Djukic will present his talk "The Human is the Loop".

Agenda:
First 5-10 minutes - welcome, orientation, introductions
Next 30-40 minutes - Petar's talk "The Human Is the Loop: Planning and Shipping Code with Claude Code and GitHub"
Last 10-25 minutes - Q&A, open discussion

Talk abstract:
Everyone is talking about "loop engineering" — replacing yourself as the person who prompts the coding agent and building the system that does it instead. This talk shows a working version of that idea, with one difference: the human stays in charge.
I'll demonstrate the loop I use daily. It runs on four commands and GitHub. A planning command reads the project specs and proposes the next batch of work. A push command writes each task to GitHub as a self-contained issue — everything a model needs to execute it in a session that knows nothing about this one. A pop command decomposes an issue into sub-issues inside an isolated git worktree. A work command executes them one at a time, validates, and opens the pull request.
The design principles matter more than the tooling: GitHub is the memory between sessions, every command starts from a fresh context window, the agent that writes the code never grades its own output, and a human approves every plan before anything is created. The model does the work. You do the thinking.
No framework required — everything shown is markdown files you can copy into your own projects.

About Petar:
Petar Djukic is a Principal AI Architect at Nokia Bell Labs in Ottawa, where he designed Declarative Agents, an open-source framework for building agentic systems as configuration rather than code. Before Bell Labs, he built and led Ciena's AI/ML team, which shipped nine production ML systems. He has spent 20+ years building production software, holds 65+ US patents, and has a PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto. He writes about AI-assisted development at https://meshintelligence.substack.com, where he has generated over 70,000 lines of production Go code using the workflow in this talk.

Event sponsor:
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