BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260513T015817Z UID:7824737C-F0FD-49E1-81EC-ABE918393C7F DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260511T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260511T200000 DESCRIPTION:AI is changing faster than almost anyone can track. Not the peo ple using AI every day\, not the people paying for it\, not the people dec iding whether to use it at all\, and not the people building the architect ures. The volume of news is unmanageable\, partly because a lot of it is n ow being written by the AIs themselves. Half of this talk is about what de serves your attention. The other half is Bob.\n\nSoftware engineering used to have a guy named Bob. Bob's job was to look at what you were doing\, a sk why\, and tell you to slow the hell down. Bob read the spec before the code\, the code before the commit\, the commit before the deploy. Bob was annoying. Bob was correct. I miss Bob.\n\nVibe coding does not have Bob.\n \nI tried to get him back into the room by creating four tools. Duplo is B ob creating the spec from whatever reference material you have. McLoop is Bob running the build while you sleep\, with discipline about what gets co mmitted. Orchestra is grumpy Bob fighting LLM slop by putting multiple mod els in specific roles\, because any single LLM can fail spectacularly and Bob does not like that. Vroom is Bob reading what shipped and asking what should have been done differently.\n\nShort live demo of Bob. Where Bob ca me from. Where Bob breaks. Bring questions\, and bring the kind of skeptic ism the field used to have before it fired Bob.\n\nBio\n\nMike Coen is a c omputer scientist and ML researcher whose work spans software agents\, sel f-supervised learning\, AI security\, and LLM infrastructure. He earned hi s S.B.\, S.M.\, and Ph.D. from MIT\, and received the Sprowls Award for ou tstanding dissertation in computer science. He was previously on the facul ty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and co-founded several fintech startups in New York and Chicago. His recent work focuses on hardening AI systems and working toward 1\,000 useful commits per day on GitHub.\n\nCo -sponsored by: MadAI\n\nAgenda: \n6:00pm - 45 min talk\n\n6:45 - 15min Q/A \n\n7:15 - after event refreshments\n\nRoom: 302\, Bldg: Madison Central L ibrary\, 201 West Mifflin Street\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, United States\, 5 3703\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/558416 LOCATION:Room: 302\, Bldg: Madison Central Library\, 201 West Mifflin Stree t\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, United States\, 53703\, Virtual: https://events. vtools.ieee.org/m/558416 ORGANIZER:harrison@glsan.com SEQUENCE:23 SUMMARY:What's actually changed: building software with AI when everyone fe els overwhelmed URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/558416 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p class="is_Paragraph font_body _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _ws-pre-wrap _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0p x _ff-f-family _fow-f-weight-4 _fos-f-size-5 _lh-f-lineHeigh112924 _col-co lor">AI is changing faster than almost anyone can track. Not the people us ing AI every day\, not the people paying for it\, not the people deciding whether to use it at all\, and not the people building the architectures. The volume of news is unmanageable\, partly because a lot of it is now bei ng written by the AIs themselves. Half of this talk is about what deserves your attention. The other half is Bob.</p>\n<p class="is_Paragraph font_b ody _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _ws-pre-wrap _mt-0px _mr-0p x _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fow-f-weight-4 _fos-f-size-5 _lh-f-lineHei gh112924 _col-color">Software engineering used to have a guy named Bob. Bo b's job was to look at what you were doing\, ask why\, and tell you to slo w the hell down. Bob read the spec before the code\, the code before the c ommit\, the commit before the deploy. Bob was annoying. Bob was correct. I miss Bob.</p>\n<p class="is_Paragraph font_body _dsp-inline _bxs-border-b ox _ww-break-word _ws-pre-wrap _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-famil y _fow-f-weight-4 _fos-f-size-5 _lh-f-lineHeigh112924 _col-color">Vibe cod ing does not have Bob.</p>\n<p class="is_Paragraph font_body _dsp-inline _ bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _ws-pre-wrap _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fow-f-weight-4 _fos-f-size-5 _lh-f-lineHeigh112924 _col-col or">I tried to get him back into the room by creating four tools. Duplo is Bob creating the spec from whatever reference material you have. McLoop i s Bob running the build while you sleep\, with discipline about what gets committed. Orchestra is grumpy Bob fighting LLM slop by putting multiple m odels in specific roles\, because any single LLM can fail spectacularly an d Bob does not like that. Vroom is Bob reading what shipped and asking wha t should have been done differently.</p>\n<p class="is_Paragraph font_body _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _ws-pre-wrap _mt-0px _mr-0px _ mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fow-f-weight-4 _fos-f-size-5 _lh-f-lineHeigh1 12924 _col-color">Short live demo of Bob. Where Bob came from. Where Bob b reaks. Bring questions\, and bring the kind of skepticism the field used t o have before it fired Bob.</p>\n<p class="is_Paragraph font_body _dsp-inl ine _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _ws-pre-wrap _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _m l-0px _ff-f-family _fow-f-weight-4 _fos-f-size-5 _lh-f-lineHeigh112924 _co l-color">Bio</p>\n<p class="is_Paragraph font_body _dsp-inline _bxs-border -box _ww-break-word _ws-pre-wrap _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-fam ily _fow-f-weight-4 _fos-f-size-5 _lh-f-lineHeigh112924 _col-color">Mike C oen is a computer scientist and ML researcher whose work spans software ag ents\, self-supervised learning\, AI security\, and LLM infrastructure. He earned his S.B.\, S.M.\, and Ph.D. from MIT\, and received the Sprowls Aw ard for outstanding dissertation in computer science. He was previously on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin&ndash\;Madison and co-founded several fintech startups in New York and Chicago. His recent work focuses on hardening AI systems and working toward 1\,000 useful commits per day o n GitHub.</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p>6:00pm - 45 min talk</p>\n<p>6:4 5 - 15min Q/A</p>\n<p>7:15 - after event refreshments</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR