Agents in production
July 2026 · Vercel Ship Sydney · Machine Hall, Sydney
Panel on agents in production with Auto & General and CommBank, moderated by Vercel.
- 200+ engineering and product leaders at Machine Hall.
Recap
Speaking
Meetups, panels, and internal sessions on shipping with AI, without the slop.
What I talk about
I talk about zero-to-one product, agents in production, and why users can feel when you stopped editing.
- Zero-to-one product building
- AI-assisted engineering
- Agents in production
- Product taste and craft
- Startup execution speed
- Developer tooling
- Community-led learning
Talks
Writing 90% of my code with AI
June 2026 · Agents After Dark · Podcast
Writing most of my code with AI and shipping it safely to millions of Linktree users: plan mode, layered agent and human review, feature flags, and evals.
- The hallucinated dependency that reached prod, and the review system that catches the next one.
Watch
Care made easy
May 2026 · Claude Community Australia · AWS, Melbourne
The tools I’ve built over two years to ship fast without cutting corners.
- Closing speaker at Claude for Developers Melbourne, billed as the Blode Stack.
- Live demo of the full developer toolkit.
Slides
Unblocking Yourself with AI
May 2026 · Linktree · Melbourne
How we run AI tools across a 10 year old codebase and 200+ engineers. 20 parallel agent branches, PRs that land overnight.
- From zero adoption to 20 concurrent agent branches in production.
Slides
You can sense carelessness
February 2026 · Next.js Melbourne meetup · BuildPass, Melbourne
Users notice when you cut corners, even when they never see the code. Why the invisible details still shape how a product feels.
- ~50 developers and product builders at Next.js Melbourne.
Slides
Ship fast or die
January 2026 · Startmate mentor session · Melbourne
A working session for the latest Startmate cohort. Claude Code workflows, what actually slows early teams down, and when going slower is faster.
- Part of an ongoing mentorship with Startmate.
Slides
You don’t have to make AI slop
January 2026 · Melbourne builder meetup · Melbourne
AI makes it easy to ship faster. It also makes it easy to ship worse. The habits that keep the bar high when you’re building with AI every day.
Slides
Building at different scales
July 2025 · The Outlook panel · Melbourne
What changes when you go from three people to Atlassian scale? Panel with Tarra van Amerongen and Trudi Boatwright.
- How execution changes at every stage while the mission stays the same.
Video
Slides and recordings are linked where they exist.
How to book
Send the audience, the date, how long you want, and whether it is in a city or remote. I reply to most things within a few days.
Not sales keynotes, and not “the future of AI” with no product in it.
Book a talk