Meetup #5

About this event

Hello everyone! Firstly apologies for such a long gap between now and the last event, I have been super busy but we are back! Super excited to round up the year of events with my friend Youcef Rahmani and an incredibly talented engineer Tom Meyer. This will be the last event of 2026 but already have Febs line up ready to roll! *** 🎤 Tom Meyer \| Principal Engineer @ Samsara 🗣️ Avoiding the Vibing-Kruger Effect In 1995, a man robbed banks after smearing lemon juice on his face, since he thought it would make him invisible. When he was caught, he responded, “But I wore the juice!” This became known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect. "But I used Opus!" (or Fable, or Astra) – This is the Vibing-Kruger effect. We think we understand something at an expert level, and don’t dig deep enough to know that the AI is sycophantically leading us down a garden path. I’m a Principal Engineer, I’ve built systems in dozens of programming languages over decades of experience, and I still sometimes drink the Kool-Aid the AI hands me. I’ll be sharing practical methods to ship solid code at scale: How do you confidently build new products quickly using AI? How do you leverage your human understanding of the customer’s problem, and how do you trust that the AI is solving your problems properly? How do you keep software quality high when you aren’t reviewing every commit in detail? And how do you remove technical debt rather than adding to it? About me I currently lead AI product engineering and engineering use of AI coding and orchestration tools in the Telematics org at Samsara, which handles millions of vehicles and trillions of data points a year. I live in London and have led work at startups (including 16th employee at Dropbox), Meta, and SaaS companies in the US, UK, India and the Middle East. *** 🎤 Youcef Rahmani \| Co\-Founder @ ToumAI 🗣️ Talk TBA As always we kick things off with some pizza, drinks and networking around 6pm. We will then start the talks at 6.30pm sharp, please arrive on time! \*\*\*\*\*Please be aware we will need to check people in at reception due to building security so try to make sure you have the correct registered name or know your account name for entry\*\*\*\*\* See you then :D