New Seminar Series: Frontier in AI Software Engineering
Eight engineers and founders from Silicon Valley. One big question I want to ask them: how are people who build real software actually using AI today?
Honestly, after spending the academic semester deep in teaching, research, papers, and university life, I feel a little like I’ve been in a cave while the world of software engineering has been turning upside down. So this summer, I wanted to learn directly from the people building at the frontier, and I’d love for you to join me.
Eight Thursday sessions.
May 28 through July 23. 2:00-2:45 PM PT.
Each session is a 30-minute talk followed by 15 minutes of Q&A.
Speakers confirmed include engineers and founders from Superlinked, Together AI, Ollama, SingleStore, OneFourTwentyFour, Nuro, and more. Every speaker is a hands-on practitioner, personally invited. Each sharing how their day-to-day engineering workflows have evolved as AI tools moved from novelty to necessity.
We kick off next Thursday, May 28, with Daniel Svonava, CEO of Superlinked (Index-backed).
His talk: Build systems that build systems.
He’ll walk through their journey from AI-assisted to AI-first development on a complex, reliability-critical product, and share what it actually takes to burn billions of tokens per engineer per month productively.
Register here (free): https://luma.com/byhand-ri23
Full schedule and speaker details:
https://cu-frontier-swe-seminar.pages.dev
This Thursday, instead of solving matrix multiplications, I’ll be sitting in the audience listening, taking notes, and asking questions, just like you. Hope to see you there.
Prof. Tom Yeh