- Build Log Lightning Talk
The Reset Button: Building Through the Longest Night
Wed 12 Aug, 15:00 – 15:10·Online
A short build-log session about repeated resets, pacing, and finishing a challenge project under time pressure.
- deavski Challenge participant
- Build Log Lightning Talk
Model Choices Under Pressure: Workhorses, APIs, and Cost
Wed 12 Aug, 15:15 – 15:25·Online
A practitioner discussion on selecting strong workhorse models and APIs while shipping quickly.
- Tyler Challenge participant
- Product Demos Talk
Borrowing Beginner Eyes: First-Time-User Personas for Your Own App
Wed 12 Aug, 15:30 – 15:45·Online
How to deliberately test a product from the perspective of someone who has never used the app before.
- Mike Lay (mkly) Challenge participant; GatherPulse builder
- Build Log Talk
From Trace to Product: A 48.9-Hour Agentic Build Report
Wed 12 Aug, 15:50 – 16:05·Online
A build report framing coding conversations, subagents, repositories, commits, voice steering, and product progress as evidence of the work.
- realgenekim Challenge participant; CFP Killer builder
- Product Demos Demo
SpeakerOps: CFP to Readiness in One Working Demo
Wed 12 Aug, 16:10 – 16:25·Online
A product walkthrough focused on demo accounts, three user roles, build traces, and a conference-operations workflow.
- seneca Challenge participant; SpeakerOps builder
- Quality & Evals Talk
Fresh Eyes, Fresh Sessions: Testing a Conference Product End to End
Wed 12 Aug, 16:30 – 16:45·Online
A practical review of planning tests from a clean session or independent provider, then iterating until reviewers agree.
- Quality & Evals Talk
The Testing Gap: What Agents Should Check After They Build
Wed 12 Aug, 16:50 – 17:05·Online
A proposal for agents that validate UI state, changes, and the finished application instead of stopping at implementation.
- Phanindra Reddy Challenge participant
- Quality & Evals Panel
When Evals Melt Your Budget
Wed 12 Aug, 17:10 – 17:40·Online
Experiences running challenge evals, avoiding runaway browser context, and looking for lower-cost evaluation paths.
- sameersegal Challenge participant
- jamesej Challenge participant
- Mike Lay (mkly) Challenge participant; GatherPulse builder
- Product Demos Demo
GatherPulse: A Broad Product, Put It in Front of Real People
Wed 12 Aug, 17:45 – 18:00·Online
A candid demo about the uncertainty that remains when a broad feature set is built quickly, and the value of hands-on feedback.
- Mike Lay (mkly) Challenge participant; GatherPulse builder
- Product Demos Demo
Conference Engine: CFP, Review, Schedule, Publish
Wed 12 Aug, 18:05 – 18:20·Online
A demo of a conference-program workflow built on Cloudflare, from CFP through review and scheduling to publishing.
- agrim Challenge participant; Conference Engine builder
- Product Demos Demo
OpenSession: Make the Whole Program Flow Testable
Wed 12 Aug, 18:25 – 18:40·Online
A product demo following submission, review, acceptance, scheduling, and publishing, with a request to find where it breaks.
- Malik Challenge participant; OpenSession builder
- Quality & Evals Panel
Voice, Accents, and Ambiguity in Coding Workflows
Wed 12 Aug, 18:45 – 19:15·Online
A discussion prompt on speech-to-text for coding: ambiguous words, accents, and the practical limits of current tools.
- bodhi [CRBS] Challenge participant
- isaac Challenge participant