The evening session on October 14 targets builders working on odd and unfinished coding agent projects.
Simon Willison hosts an evening Birds of a Feather session with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco on Wednesday, October 14. The event gathers people who build unusual and interesting things with and on top of coding agents. Willison describes the format as an agentic show-and-tell.
Willison publishes about LLM tooling on his weblog, and Jesse Vincent joins as co-host. Organizers want builders to compare notes on what they are trying, what they are learning, and what they have not figured out yet. The pair shows particular interest in work that has not appeared publicly, in odd experiments, and in unfinished projects without an obvious market.
Expect one flowing conversation rather than a slate of presentations, so attendees can share work without preparing slides. Organizers encourage sharing but require no presentation, and they frame the gathering as exploration rather than product pitching. Builders who attend get early sight of techniques and tooling that rarely reach conference stages.
The session runs on the evening of Wednesday, October 14, in San Francisco. Willison and Vincent aim to lean into the strangeness of agentic AI work rather than smooth it over. Watch for attendees to trade notes on coding agents that few teams have discussed in public.
What matters
- Simon Willison will host the Birds of a Feather session with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco.
- Builders gain a venue to compare notes on experiments that lack an obvious market.
- Watch for shared findings on agentic engineering practices to surface after October 14.
Why it matters
Watch for shared findings on agentic engineering practices to surface after October 14.
This GenAI News article was prepared in original wording using reporting and materials published by Simon Willison’s Weblog. Source reference: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/23/bof-agentic-engineering/.
Drafted by the GenAI News review pipeline.