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Fine Tuning Your (Software) Factory Settings

Hosted by CircleCI

When
12:00 – 2:00 PM
Where
FiDi
Format
Breakfast, Brunch or Lunch and Roundtable / Workshop
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AI-generated code is going into production. That's not the problem, that's the point. The problem is shipping it without knowing whether it's actually good.

Most teams haven't figured this out yet. The top 5% have. They get 9x more code into production than the median, and that gap grew in a single quarter.

The teams pulling ahead have built a software factory: a system that takes AI-generated code from creation to release, with validation and measurement at every step.

That means understanding accuracy of results, efficiency (token time, turns, and human time cost), and running risk assessments to determine how fast you can move code through the factory without human intervention, and where removing humans from the loop is a bet you don't want to make.

Rob Zuber went back to building. As CTO of CircleCI, he and his team have been heads down solving this problem themselves. He'll show you live how they approached it, what they built, and what they learned.

Then it's your turn. We'll work through hands-on projects together so you leave with a concrete starting point, not just the concept, but something you built.

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