# Speaking

> Meetups, panels, and internal sessions on shipping with AI, without the slop.

Canonical URL: https://blode.co/speaking

## 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

### Agents in production

*Vercel Ship Sydney* · July 2026 · 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](https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-ship-2026-recap#ship-2026-in-sydney)

### Writing 90% of my code with AI

*Agents After Dark* · June 2026 · 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUI-E4K942w)
- [Listen](https://open.spotify.com/show/033v9bTcSbsxFsxQmPnz52)

### Care made easy

*Claude Community Australia* · May 2026 · 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](https://blode.co/care)
- [Recording](https://www.loom.com/share/023aaf07218d4c938b6a5ce4428fc0f2)
- [Event page](https://claudecommunity.com.au/events/melbourne-claude-code-meetup-may-2026)

### Unblocking Yourself with AI

*Linktree* · May 2026 · 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 / link](https://blode.co/ai-usage)

### You can sense carelessness

*Next.js Melbourne meetup* · February 2026 · 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 / link](https://blode.co/you-can-sense-carelessness)
- [Event page](https://luma.com/t5jle3hj)

### Ship fast or die

*Startmate mentor session* · January 2026 · 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 / link](https://blode.co/ship-fast)

### You don’t have to make AI slop

*Melbourne builder meetup* · January 2026 · 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 / link](https://blode.co/ai-slop)

### Building at different scales

*The Outlook panel* · July 2025 · 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](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/matthewblode_want-to-know-what-customers-want-tarra-activity-7363744098853273601-2l43?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAABPvOgMBrrRnmj7eHPWPIcoGwwpj2HiQRKg)

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](https://blode.co/contact).