AI Engineering Code Summit 2025 - Analysis & Insights
This repository contains comprehensive notes, analysis, and synthesis from the AI Engineer Code Summit 2025 held November 19-22, 2025 in Midtown Manhattan, New York. These notes cover the Leadership Sessions (Nov 20) and Engineering Sessions (Nov 21).
Notes
Most of this was based on my note taking and phone-photo snapping work on side at the conference. I wrote down the quotes as they happened but I wasn’t able to verify anything. From my notes, I used claude to expand, contract, expand again, and contract again the content. Look through for themes, tweaking the ideas, and then reorganizing things into sections.
I designed the basic side using aistudio, copied it over into my claude-managed repo, and iterated on the designs. I used nano-banana to process the conference photos — vibe coded an image processor which also can double as a Claude Code skill — and generate the diagrams for the posts. The process-slides prompt then read each slide and figured out which speaker it went it.
After choosing all of the themes, I then went back and rewrote all of the articles because boy does AI generated prose really. Its not this but its that. Sigh.
Raw notes & Photos
Some of the prompts that got us here:
- conference-analsys.md
- process-slides.md
- theme-summary.md
- speaker-decorator.md
- tighten-prose.md
- semantic-overlap.md
But ultimately, you just gotta type everything in from scratch.
A discoursive journey into subagents
The speaker decorator was fun: I wrote that with a prompt, then I’d trigger it with “look through all the speakers that don’t have a photo and run a subagent for them 10 at a time”. The agent could drive itself, who needs flow control when it’s smart enough to do it own its own.