AI-Driven Software Development: Part 2 + Summer Party! 🏖️

Valencia Codes would like to welcome you all to our #28 edition of Level Up at a brand new location, the amazing Base2, located in the Marina and with an amazing rooftop terrace, perfect for our summer party 🏖️!

What is Level Up? It's a monthly meet-up where we will be inviting speakers from inside and outside of our community to introduce you to interesting technical topics and share their experiences with you.

AI-Driven Software Development: Part 2

You may have seen our previous event AI-Driven Software Development: Strategies, best practices, war stories
https://www.meetup.com/valencia-codes/events/314750239

Well it stirred a lot of interest because the event filled up to capacity of 100 people within 48 hrs! Which prompted multiple requests for us to either repeat the event or expand it.

And that's exactly what we're going to do - only this time with a twist!

We're going down to the beach and we're going to combine part 2 of the AI-Driven Software Development event with our now traditional summer party! Our hosts for evening, Base2, have a super cool rooftop terrace down in the port. We're going to talk about AI coding, then we're going to stick on the tunes and grab a few beers up top!

Here is the description from the original event:

"So at this point we're all brain-fried Claude addicts, but how well has this converted into shipping quality product?

We will be using a format called 'Fishbowl', a dynamic style of debate where a small group discusses a topic in an inner circle while others observe from the outside. Audience members can join the inner circle at any time, creating an open, evolving conversation.

In this discussion, I want us to open up and share how we develop software in our companies, but a layer deeper than the usual 'We gave all the devs Cursor licenses'.

Here are some of the things I want us to discuss:

- How are you incorporating AI in the design, architecture, testing, QA, or code review phases of the Software Development Life Cycle?
- Have you changed your team structure? For example from a sprint team of 6 to a team of 2-3
- What MCPs/custom skill/instruction files do you use if any?
- Are you using some framework like Spec-Driven Development?
- Have your product team/CEO started vibe coding? How do your channel their creative energy to help define requirements while avoiding them blowing themselves up by leaking secret keys in the frontend (or 1 million other destructive mistakes they might make)?
- How do make sure Junior engineers are learning the deep engineering skills they need and not just becoming copy-paste merchants?
- How do you stop your engineers getting brain rot? Can they still work without AI? Do you care?
- How do you handle cost? Are you token maxxing? Would you consider using a more token-efficient agent harness that is not created by token-provider e.g. instead of Claude Code or Codex, use Pi

and most importantly

- Are you shipping quality product faster? Are your customers delighted? How are you measuring this?"

At the end of the event on June 16th, we're going to figure out which topics we couldn't cover, and we're going to focus part 2 on those topics which we missed.

So if you come to either individual event or both events, you should have a super interesting time!

Agenda
1800 - Arrival and networking 🍻
1830 - Discussion "AI-Driven Software Development: Strategies, best practices, war stories: Part 2"
2000 - Rooftop Networking 🍻

Sponsors
- Our hosts for this event are Base2 https://base2hub.com/