PyLadies ATX

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About us

PyLadiesATX is a social/professional group for lady Python enthusiasts at every experience level. Beginners are always welcome! We represent Pythonistas from a wide variety of disciplines and interest areas - full-time developers and hobbyists alike.

Unless otherwise noted, PyLadiesATX events are exclusively for PyLadies and their invited guests. We are a group for women and other gender minorities. Trans women are welcome and recognized as women. If you are a woman who enjoys learning about and writing Python, we would love to have you come join us.

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PyTexas Monthly Meetup: Lessons Learned from a Year of Claude Code
Tue, Aug 4 · 8:00 PM CDT
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42 attendees from 10 groups
Join us for our monthly meetup! The meetup will take place in the PyTexas Discord server, so be sure to join!
This month we are excited to be joined by Mason Egger

Speaker: Mason Egger
Topic: Cutting Through the Slop: Lessons Learned from a Year of Claude Code

Code is cheaper than it's ever been, and it will never be this expensive again.
Every few decades a technology flips the table on a profession, and software engineering is having that moment right now.
The noise around it makes the moment hard to read, and most developers either haven't tried these tools at all or got slop and quit.

I spent the last year learning, building, and refining damn near everything with Claude Code, to unbelievable success.
This is what survived contact with the work.
The principles that held no matter which model was ahead that week, the tools I run on anything worth doing properly, and an honest accounting of which customizations earned their keep and which ones only ate my evenings.
This presentation is for both of those people, plus anyone already using these tools who wants to compare notes.

During this presentation attendees will:
- Learn where AI adoption lands in software engineering's long history of abstraction, and why this shift isn't the one the CASE tools promised
- See a repeatable workflow that produces code they understand, and the guardrails that make an agent's output worth shipping
- Leave knowing why cheap code makes them worth more, not less