The Best Worst Pair Programmer You'll Ever Have
Async Brighton
Getting productive with Claude Code — an agent that's brilliant, opinionated, and occasionally makes things up.
In this talk Dave will get into the reality of agentic AI development — what it's genuinely good at (in his opinion), where it'll burn you, and how to tune it to your philosophies.
He'll cover live demos across:
- Solving a Project Euler using Claude
- Adding features to an existing open source codebase
- Building something complex from scratch with parts you don't know
We'll also look at why running your own infrastructure matters more, not less, in an agentic world — and why "just deploy to Vercel" might be the wrong move.
You'll leave with a mental model of where Claude Code (is it really a lazy, immoral, subversive, gaslighting liar?) may fit more into your workflow, and enough live demos to either excite or terrify you. Probably both.
🍕🍻 Pizza and drinks will be provided thanks to sponsorship from Puck - the open source visual editor for React.
In-person attendees: Please arrive at Runway East (ground floor) between 19:00 and 19:15 for refreshments and socializing. Make sure you are registered to attend so we have an idea of numbers for catering.
Remote attendees: We only broadcast talks. Join the group to hear about future events and we hope you'll join us next time!
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Firstly, the event is on Thursday the 5th of March (somehow forgot to mention that).
Secondly, the event will be streamed online - we'll send a link to the live stream a bit closer to the event.
If you're joining us in-person please sign up on meetup so we can make sure we have enough pizza and drinks for everyone. 😊