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A casual weekly virtual chat mostly focused on web and software development.

Weekly Dev Chat is a place to ask questions, hear different viewpoints, and get to know your fellow developers. Every week there is an initial topic posted to get the discussion started. Sometimes we discuss the initial topic the entire chat, and other times the topic changes several times through the natural flow of the conversation.

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.

Context Engineering: Prompting Is Not Enough

This week, let's talk about context engineering: the practical work around AI systems that goes beyond writing a single prompt. Good results often come from better context shaping, retrieval choices, evaluation loops, and clear guardrails, not just "better wording."

Discussion starters:

  • What has had the biggest impact for you: prompt structure, system instructions, retrieval quality, tool use, or evals?
  • Where do AI-assisted workflows still break down in real teams (code review, debugging, docs, testing, handoffs)?
  • What's one habit or pattern you've adopted that made AI outputs more reliable?

Everyone and anyone is welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others. Zoom link will be posted at 12pm MDT.

Open Discussion

If you've got a topic you've always wanted to discuss as a group, today's your day. Beefs/bouquets, dreams/nightmares, heroes/villains. Software development can be the focus, but not necessarily.

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others. Zoom link will be posted at 12pm MDT.

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In honour of Amii's Upper Bound conference happening this week, the May 19th, 2026 chat will be about AI. Often we limit how much AI chatter is allowed but not today! Anything AI related. Bring your AI hopes, worries, success stories, failures, etc.

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others. Zoom link will be posted at 12pm MDT.

P.S. - The Weekly Dev Chat will be at the Upper Bound Mega Meetup (May 19th, 5pm to 8pm, downtown library). Swing by and say hi.  A Upper Bound ticket is NOT required to attend the Mega Meetup.

https://www.meetup.com/edmontonunlimited/events/314599992

https://www.upperbound.ai/