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Design leader Jessie Pahng at UX Australia 2026: From reactive systems to proactive intelligence — what it takes to build interfaces that anticipate rather than respond. Sydney, Aug 27–28.
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Gian Wild (CEO, AccessibilityOz) at UX Australia 2026: History of web accessibility — where we've been, what's worked, what hasn't, what we're still getting wrong. Sydney, Aug 27–28.
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Emma Buckland (Lead UX Designer) at UX Australia 2026: Why most Mobile UX increases risk — and how to reduce it. Sydney, Aug 27–28.
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Emily Smith & Nadine Raydan (ReachOut Australia) at UX Australia 2026: The architecture of human mental health support — re-designing PeerChat for on-demand support. Sydney, Aug 27–28.
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Elise Loeuille (Transport for NSW) at UX Australia 2026: Unplanned Disruption — Mind the Gaps. Designing for the moments when service journeys fall apart. Sydney, Aug 27–28.
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Cornel Steyn & Jess Witt (Versent) co-present at UX Australia 2026: Design Shapes Context, Context Shapes Design. Sydney, Aug 27–28.
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Ben Shelton & Cordelia Prangley (University of Newcastle) co-present at UX Australia 2026: Designing for the Mind — using cognitive load to measure UX effectiveness. Sydney, Aug 27–28.
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Design leader Amir Ansari at UX Australia 2026: Leadership that lasts — how to build practice, principles and culture that outlive any one leader's tenure. Sydney, Aug 27–28.
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Amanda Pitcher (Versent) at UX Australia 2026: Getting comfortable with the unknown — the muscle leaders need to build so teams can keep doing the hard work. Sydney, Aug 27–28.
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Amanda Pitcher (Versent) at UX Australia 2026: Getting comfortable with the unknown — the muscle leaders need to build so teams can keep doing the hard work. Sydney, Aug 27–28.
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Sam Alderton-Johnson (Impact Policy) joins Steve Baty for a keynote fireside at UX Australia 2026 — reframing co-design as a decolonising practice. Sydney, Aug 27–28.
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9 days ago
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Nila Rezaei keynotes UX Australia 2026. Co-Founder & Design Director of RK Collective. Good Design Australia Ambassador. Her project Crafted Liberation won the 2024 Good Design Award for Social Impact. Sydney, Aug 27–28.
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10 days ago
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Nathan Shedroff keynotes UX Australia 2026 — Your Strategic Future. Long-time educator at California College of the Arts and author of Make It Meaningful, Design Is the Problem, and Experience Design 1.1. Sydney, Aug 27–28.
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What does a cluttered footpath have in common with a confusing navigation menu? Fatemeh Aminpour keynotes UX Australia 2026 — reframing neuroinclusion as a design systems challenge. Sydney, Aug 27–28.
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The Interface Is No Longer the Product
For decades, the only way to modify an application’s state was through a human interface. That assumption is starting to break. Most human-computer interaction has been built around two patterns: issuing commands (typing, clicking, speaking) and manipulating representations (dragging, resizing, arranging, formatting). Every productivity tool ever built is designed around one or both of those. The keyboard, the mouse, the touchscreen. That is the full vocabulary. The interface and the product were, for practical purposes, the same thing. Source
https://conffab.com/elsewhere/the-interface-is-no-longer-the-product/
about 2 months ago
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Yicheng Guo: We shipped one of REA Group’s first generative AI features to production: Property Highlights, which turns long real-estate listings into three skimmable takeaways. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Notion ships sandboxed workers in their agent platform. Adam Hudson on safely executing third-party code inside agents. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Agent memory degrades over hundreds of sessions. Benchmarks miss this completely. Ananya Roy on memory as the real production failure mode. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Matthew Gillard: The email didnt have what I submitted... AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Small language model beat Avni Bhatt's LLM for structured extraction. Lower latency, cut costs, better reliability. Hybrid patterns. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Lovee Jain: AI agents aren’t magic. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Stephen Sennett: Most developers pick their AI model the same way: use the biggest, smartest one available for everything. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Mic Neale: The current AI stack has a dependency most of us don’t talk about: a handful of closed models from a handful of providers, and an API call standing between every agent and every action. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Daniel Rodgers-Pryor: Autocomplete is *so* 2023. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Nick Lothian: Everyone wants privacy, but the best models require you to give up control of your data. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Annie Vella: AI assistants ship more code but erode the craft that makes engineering joyful. How do we build systems that sustain both? AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Navan Tirupathi: Most AI agents are reactive chatbots—great for one-off queries, but they reset, forget, and lack initiative, failing in real-world use like personal assistants or autonomous workflows. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Mark McDonald: In the time it takes to train a frontier model, the open source libraries we rely on can undergo significant changes. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Andy Kelk: When you roll out AI coding tools, you expect pushback about job security and workflow disruption. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Janna Malikova: Over the last two years, our customer web traffic changed: today around 50% of visitors are unknown browsers and AI agents. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Justin Barias: When I joined my current team, it was a familiar pattern: 6-8 experiments over a year, each taking 10-12 weeks, 60-70% of the time burned on infrastructure, one thing in production held together with duct tape, an... AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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The Center Has a Bias | Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings
Whenever a new technology shows up, the conversation quickly splits into camps. There are the people who reject it outright, and there are the people who seem to adopt it with religious enthusiasm. For more than a year now, no topic has been more polarising than AI coding agents. There is a difference between saying “this looks flawed in principle” and saying “I used this enough to understand where it breaks, where it helps, and how it changes my work.” The second type of criticism is expensive. It costs time, frustration, and a genuine willingness to engage. But what does the center look like? I consider myself to be part
https://conffab.com/elsewhere/the-center-has-a-bias-armin-ronachers-thoughts-and-writings/
3 months ago
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Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now
Last week we learned about Anthropic’s Mythos, a new LLM so “strikingly capable at computer security tasks” that Anthropic didn’t release it publicly. Instead, only critical software makers have been granted access, providing them time to harden their systems. This chart suggests an interesting security economy: to harden a system we need to spend more tokens discovering exploits than attackers spend exploiting them. Source
https://conffab.com/elsewhere/cybersecurity-looks-like-proof-of-work-now/
3 months ago
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Nick Beaugeard: AI demos are easy. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Slop Is Not Necessarily The Future\
A couple of years ago, “slop” became the popular shorthand for unwanted, mindlessly generated AI content flooding the internet including images, text, and spam. Simon Willison helped popularize the term, though it had been circulating in engineering communities in the years prior. I want to argue that AI models will write good code because of economic incentives. Good code is cheaper to generate and maintain. Competition is high between the AI models right now, and the ones that win will help developers ship reliable features fastest, which requires simple, maintainable code. Good code will prevail, not only because we want it to (though we do!), but because economic forces demand
https://conffab.com/elsewhere/slop-is-not-necessarily-the-future/
3 months ago
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Daniel Nadasi: (as submitted in the original form, let me know if lost) AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Jason Cornwall: Most “AI gives you 10x productivity” stories assume coding is the bottleneck. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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AI in production isn't about the model. Abdul Karim & Jack Silman on the full engineering pipeline: integration, testing, observability, everything else. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Theodoros Galanos: Large language models excel at code—but engineering isn't just code. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Rob Manson: What's the role of the web in our modern AI future... AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Jakub Riedl:
AGENTS.md
started as a simple way to guide coding agents, but many teams are discovering that a default or poorly written one can actually make agents worse. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Thiago Shimada Ramos: What does it look like to build AI agents that never touch the internet? AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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When do multi-agent systems add value? Anannya Roy Chowdhury shares real metrics from AWS on where the complexity payoff exists. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Simon Knox: Cloud outages used to mean your site went down, maybe you couldn’t deploy. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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AJ Fisher: The smartest model doesn’t always win. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Chris Rickard: Legacy Software powers the world - from banking to utilities and government. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI – Lalit Maganti
For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that no one has invested in building a really good developer experience for it2. A couple of weeks ago, after ~250 hours of effort over three months3 on evenings, weekends, and vacation days, I finally released syntaqlite (GitHub), fulfilling this long-held wish. And I believe the main reason this happened was because of AI coding agents4. Of course, there’s no shortage of posts claiming that AI one-shot their project or pushing back and declaring that AI is all slop. I’m going to take a
https://conffab.com/elsewhere/eight-years-of-wanting-three-months-of-building-with-ai-lalit-maganti/
3 months ago
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Components of A Coding Agent – by Sebastian Raschka, PhD
In this article, I want to cover the overall design of coding agents and agent harnesses: what they are, how they work, and how the different pieces fit together in practice. Readers of my Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) and Build a Large Reasoning Model (From Scratch) books often ask about agents, so I thought it would be useful to write a reference I can point to. More generally, agents have become an important topic because much of the recent progress in practical LLM systems is not just about better models, but about how we use them. In many real-world applications, the surrounding system, such as tool use,
https://conffab.com/elsewhere/components-of-a-coding-agent-by-sebastian-raschka-phd/
3 months ago
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Moin Zaman: De-identifying text is easy to demo and surprisingly hard to ship. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4
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3 months ago
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The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House – O’Reilly
In 1998, Eric S. Raymond published the founding text of open source software development, The Cathedral and the Bazaar. In it, he detailed two methods of building software: The ideas crystallized in The Cathedral and the Bazaar helped kick off a quarter-century of open source innovation and dominance. But just as the internet made communication cheap and birthed the bazaar, AI is making code cheap and kicking off a new era filled with idiosyncratic, sprawling, cobbled-together software. Meet the third model: The Winchester Mystery House. Source
https://conffab.com/elsewhere/the-cathedral-the-bazaar-and-the-winchester-mystery-house-oreilly/
3 months ago
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