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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.

Collaboration Overload

Are you overwhelmed by all the communication channels you have to monitor every day? Teams, Slack, email, SMS, Discord, WhatsApp…

Is this cutting into your productivity, your concentration, and your joy of using computers and writing software?

What strategies do you use to manage all these channels? Do you turn off notifications? Block certain times of day to read and respond? Come share your woes and wisdom!

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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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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