Developer experience

Feb 03, 2026

Quarkus in Action • Martin Stefanko, Jan Martiska & Holly Cummins

Authors Martin Štefanko and Jan Martiška discuss their book "Quarkus in Action," detailing the framework's powerful developer experience, the trade-offs between JVM and native compilation, and its cloud-native capabilities. They explore the book's structure, which guides readers through building a complex microservices application to showcase over 29 different extensions, from REST and gRPC to reactive messaging and cloud deployment.

Jan 23, 2026

Build Hour: Apps in ChatGPT

Learn how to design, build, and enhance real-time, multi-player applications within ChatGPT using the Apps SDK and Codex. This guide covers the core architecture, an AI-first development workflow, and best practices for creating valuable user experiences.

Jan 16, 2026

Lessons from Building Open Source Libraries

Thomas Wolf, co-founder of Hugging Face, discusses his journey from physics to AI, the power of open-source models to accelerate innovation, the practical challenges of productionalizing AI demos, and why the biggest opportunities for founders now lie in the application layer on top of powerful foundation models.

Dec 23, 2025

Developer Experience in the Age of AI Coding Agents – Max Kanat Alexander, Capitol One

Max Kanat-Alexander explores the rapid changes in software engineering driven by AI and identifies 'no-regrets investments' that will benefit development teams regardless of the future. He argues that by focusing on foundational developer experience principles—such as standardizing tools, improving validation, structuring code for testability, and refining the code review process—organizations can create a virtuous cycle of productivity for both human developers and their AI agent counterparts.

Dec 22, 2025

Making Codebases Agent Ready – Eno Reyes, Factory AI

The effectiveness of AI coding agents is not limited by model quality, but by "Agent Readiness"—the state of your development environment. This talk explains why agents fail on codebases with flaky tests, low validation, and tribal knowledge. It introduces a framework for improving your environment's readiness through rigorous verification, automated validation, and a shift to specification-driven development, arguing this is the key to unlocking 5-7x productivity gains and enabling true software engineering autonomy.

Oct 24, 2025

Elm & Open Source: What's Next? • Evan Czaplicki & Kris Jenkins

Evan Czaplicki, creator of Elm, discusses the sustainability challenges of open-source that led to Elm's development pause, his new work on a full-stack typed functional language, and his thoughts on improving developer experience to make functional programming more accessible.