SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering
- ID
- 27533
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 23 Sep 2026, 10:53 AM
- Fetched
- 23 Sep 2026, 11:23 AM
- Provider
- Simon Willison
- Category
- developer-ai
- Original URL
- https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/23/bof-agentic-engineering/
- Source URL
- https://simonwillison.net/atom/everything/
Summary
- Score
- 4.0
- Created
- 23 Sep 2026, 11:23 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_codersai_agent_users
What happened
Simon Willison and Jesse Vincent are hosting an informal 'agentic show-and-tell' evening in San Francisco on October 14th for builders working on coding agents. The session focuses on early-stage experiments, unfinished projects, and odd explorations rather than product pitches, encouraging participants to compare notes on what they're learning and what they haven't figured out yet.
Why it matters
The framing signals that the frontier of coding-agent work is still in exploratory, non-obvious territory — unfinished experiments and weird use cases are where the real learning is happening, not polished products. If you're building with coding agents, this is a prompt to share half-baked work with peers rather than waiting for something market-ready, and to seek out or organize similar informal compare-notes sessions locally.
Discussion angle
What 'weird, unfinished' coding-agent experiments are people in our group trying that don't have an obvious market — and could we run our own informal show-and-tell format on a Meet call?