📣 📰 Just wrapped up EngX — The New York Times' annual engineering conference. Two days, 500 engineers, tons of special guests from the most amazing corners of the industries and workshops where our teams all shipped real work. 🧛
I presented "The Definitive Guide to CLAUDE(dot)md" — a 90-minute talk + workshop on teaching Claude what it can't learn from your code. Sarah Duncan presented it alongside me in a parallel room (500 engineers is a lot for one room in the heart of NYC).
Also may have gone a little overboard with the Game of Thrones references, no ragrets. 😏🐉
👷 Teaching this forced me to crystallize five years of engineering instincts into something tangible. There's a huge difference between knowing how to do something and being able to explain why it works. And teaching a room full of amazing engineers is the fastest way I've found to find gaps in your own thinking.
🫶 Grateful to the entire team that made EngX happen!
Earlier: Our internal AI training was the first run at this — What teaching AI taught me about my own thinking →.
