AI By the Bay

🚨 𝙀𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝘽𝙞𝙧𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙚. TWO weeks left 🚨

June 1st marks the end of Early Bird tickets pricing. A huge chunk of them already flew out the door.😊 We’re down to the final batch, and prices are about to jump.

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𝘈𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘐 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦 @jbaru.ch, and 𝘢 𝘤𝘺𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳, Leonid Igolnik, take the stage to debate whether AI-driven development is finally ready for prime time or just another way to get things wrong.

Maybe we’ve been 👀 at this the wrong way. AI might be trustworthy but only if we rethink how we guide it. What if there were a way to ensure it understands intent before it writes a single line of code? A way to catch mistakes before they happen instead of fixing them afterward?

That leaves us manually checking everything. 🧐 The safest bet is to assume it’s wrong and review every line yourself, which doesn’t exactly scream “𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘵.”

So what’s the alternative? 🤔

Having AI test its own work doesn’t help. If we can’t trust it to write code, why would we trust it to write tests after the fact? That’s not verification; it’s an echo chamber.

🥁 𝐃𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥, 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞... 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭! 🚨

No one trusts AI-generated code. 🤖𝘐𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵. It sounds confident. But does it actually do what we expect?

@jbaru.ch & Leonid Igolnik

🎟️🚨 TICKETS ALERT 🚨🎟️

Buy a ticket today, regret it tomorrow. Or don’t, we’re not picky! 🎟️😉

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If your organization values ✅ correctness, ⚡ velocity, and 🔍 clarity in the age of AI, this is a conversation you need to be part of.

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“Human-in-the-loop” is no longer a sufficient standard.
This is about human in charge — because long-term maintainability, trust, and resilience depend on it.

🧬 The use of Zig for ultra-efficient inference, including breakthroughs from ZL.
🔐 Type-safe systems, advanced patterns, and the enduring value of correctness.
🔁 The implications for CI/CD, observability, compliance — and developer accountability — in context-driven IDEs.

This track addresses what it means to engineer software with rigor in an AI-native world.

We’ll examine:

🚀 The growing role of Rust-backed Python tooling like UV and Pydantic, reshaping performance and reliability.
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Modern development is increasingly shaped by tools like Microsoft Copilot, Cursor, Codeium, and platforms like Replit that promise full-stack code generation. But these gains come with trade-offs. When the environment becomes opaque or fails unpredictably, developer autonomy is at risk.

🎯 This is why we’re having the Thoughtful & AI-Native Coding track at AI By the Bay.

We’re not chasing trends. We’re focused on the foundational question:
🧠Can you still understand, debug, and take responsibility for the systems you build — even with AI in the loop?

🚨 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 — 𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚 “𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫”? Alexy Khrabrov
AI copilots autocomplete your code. You click. It works — until it doesn’t. ⚠️

What happens when your test tab disappears right before launch?
That’s not hypothetical. In a recent demo from a major platform, the developer experience collapsed when key interface elements failed to appear.
❌ No tests.
❌ No control.
❌ No clarity

We’re lucky to have him and even luckier to call him a regular. ❤️

🎤 We're pleased to welcome Baruch Sadogursky to #AIbytheBay.

From early Java & DevOps to leading DevRel at JFrog through a $6B IPO — @jbaru.ch is a Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador, & co-author of Liquid Software.

Always a highlight. 🚀

We invite everyone to join us in welcoming Julien Le Dem! We're thrilled to have him back in our program for the second time in a row. 👏

🚀 Proudly presenting our next stellar speaker.

Julien Le Dem is a Principal Engineer at Datadog, an officer of the ASF, and a member of the LFAI&Data Technical Advisory Council. He co-created the Parquet, Arrow, and OpenLineage open-source projects and is involved in several others.

Mary is a proven quality marker of outstanding conferences—if she’s involved, you know it’s an event worth attending! ❤️

🎉 Thrilled to welcome @mgrygles.bsky.social back as a speaker! 🎤✨
As Director of Emerging Technologies at Callibrity, Mary brings deep hands-on engineering expertise. She’s also the President of Chicago Java Users Group, Organizer of GenAI Collective Chicago, & Co-Lead at AICamp Chicago.

🚀 CFP Deadline: Level 1 Complete!

Our Program Committee is drowning in submissions—𝟏𝟎𝟎+ 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠!😅 But why let them off easy? Push them to the brink of existential crisis—submit more! 🎤

Drop it in before it’s too late! ⏳
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🌺 Leah McGuire, ML engineer at Faros AI and also a keynote speaker at our latest edition, explored operationalizing ML models and building trust in AI systems, challenging us to rethink our approach to LLMs.

…and many more incredible women shaping the future of AI! ❤️

🌺 Holden Karau, an open-source and distributed computing champion, explored Apache Spark optimizations and scalable data engineering.
🎉 Special congratulations on Holden’s new role as co-founder of Fight Health Insurance, leveraging AI & LLMs to drive positive impact!

🌺 Shreya Rajpal, founder of Guardrails AI, brought deep insights into AI safety and reliability, showing how to build LLM applications that are not just powerful but also trustworthy.

🌺 Gwen (Chen) Shapira, CPO of Nile and keynote speaker at our latest edition, delivered an expert perspective on real-time data pipelines, Apache Kafka, and event-driven architectures.

🌺 Chip Huyen, CEO of Claypot AI (Voltron Data), joined us at LLM Avalanche, sharing her expertise on real-time ML systems and scalable infrastructure for deploying models in production. A bestselling author, her work continues to shape the AI landscape.

🌟 A huge shoutout to the incredible women in AI! 🌟

We’ve been lucky to host some of the brightest minds in tech, and today, we’re taking a moment to celebrate their impact on AI and beyond.

🌸 Happy International Women’s Day! 🌸

A season of renewal, strength, and new beginnings. Here’s to the resilience, courage, and brilliance that women bring to the world every day.

May you continue to rise, thrive, and inspire. 💫

Keep blooming! 🌷

And there’s still one more week to submit your talk before the first deadline!
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