SOLD OUT :: Melbourne Compose Thursday, 16th of July: Daniel Vianna - AI & FP: Fast, Cheap & Correct -- Without Choosing Two

[John Walker]

Wait-list is open on Luma

For those registered, please cancel your registration if you can't make it on the night.

Our July meeting will be 6:00-8:00 pm Thurs 16th of July at our regular venue, Activity Room 2 at Kathleen Syme Center in Carlton.
Arrive from 5:30 for chat and socialising, talks start start at 6:30pm.

This Month: 
 Daniel Vianna - AI & FP: Fast, Cheap & Correct -- Without Choosing Two

​AI coding tools work less by charisma than by feedback. A model can draft code quickly; the hard question is how cheaply the environment catches wrong drafts. Functional programming helps by making some wrong drafts impossible to finish: a checkout step cannot take payment before it has an address, a delivery option, and a reviewable order. The compiler becomes the critic that forces the agent to keep trying.

​Daniel Vianna will use recent experience with AI agents on a Rust webserver and a Python/Airflow data warehouse to compare two very different feedback loops. The session will be part talk, part discussion: where AI helps today, where it still lies with confidence, and what guarantees we would need before trusting agentic workflows further."

Hope to see you there :)
-Ben Hutchison & John Walker

​Melbourne Compose is the monthly in-person meetup for functional programmers in Melbourne, every 3rd Thursday of the month in Carlton

[Viktor Dukhovni]

This is the first time I'm seeing a "sold out" notice for this meeting. Does this really mean that those without a reserved "booking" should not show up?

[Nick Darvey]

+1 for this question. Is there a seating limit?

Nick

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[John Walker]

Hi,
We are only meant to have a max of 20 as per the conditions of room booking.
In the ~ 2 years up until Michael and Jack from Bellroy presented in May this limit had never been a problem.
Now here we are again.
Apologies for anyone on the wait list.
John

[Michael Webb]

Great problem to have.

[John Walker]

@Michael Webb ABSOLUTELY!!!

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