it plans · writes · tests · opens the merge request
it runs unattended — your own hardware, or someone's cloud
it wakes itself up, and asks you when it is stuck
→ Devin · Codex · Jules · Copilot Agent · Factory · Replit · OpenClaw · and a new one every week
Three years from a stupid chatbot
to "it opened the merge request".
act 2 · evidence
[ MY OPINION — YOU MAY BOO ]
Traditional engineering, as we knew it,
HAS ENDED.
act 2 · evidence
THIS IS NOT THE DOT-COM BUBBLE
~100years — industrial revolution
~40years — electricity
~10years — dot-com
~5years — mobile
18months — this
→ Same shape. Wrong speed.
act 2 · CUT IF LONG
Who does not adapt, dies. That is why I am not afraid.
And now the honest part:
I have NO IDEA where this leads.
Maybe trouble. Maybe not. Maybe it pops.
self-hosted models? hardware? energy?
→ different talk. no time. sorry.
→ happy to argue about it over a beer
act 2 · evidence
So we built another one...
yes. the world needed one more of these. hear me out.
act 3 · build
IT STARTED AS AN EXPERIMENT
cadence
June 2026 · github.com/JanMikes/Cadence"your backlog, in flow"
local · single user · SQLite · no cloud, no docker
capture tasks all day → press PLAY →
plan · implement · verify · deliver
→ It worked. That was the problem.
act 3 · build
THE FLOW — MODELLED ON A REAL TEAM
TICKET
↓
REFINE ──→ ARCHITECT ──→ IMPLEMENT ──→ CI
↑ ↑ ↑ │
└─────────────┴─── return ────┴───────────┤
↓
RETRO ←── MERGE ←── HUMAN ←── REVIEW ←┘
↓
KNOWLEDGE BASE ─→ every future task
→ Every stage is a role, not a prompt. A return is normal, not a failure.
act 3 · build
IT DOES NOT LIVE IN A CHAT WINDOW
JIRA picks the ticket up, asks, moves it
GITLAB branch · draft MR · review threads · CI
SENTRY reads the stack trace before planning a fix
LOKI queries your logs around the incident
SLACK asks you a question — and waits
→ It works where you already work. 24/7. And it remembers.
act 3 · build
WHY YOU ACTUALLY WANT ONE
RUNNING claude BY HAND
PLATFORM
context in your head
→
curated knowledge base
you are the process
→
pipeline, gates, returns
one task, while you watch
→
N tasks, unattended, 24/7
cost on the invoice
→
cost per run / stage / task
no audit trail
→
every prompt replayable
it forgets
→
it learns
→ memory · process · governance · throughput
act 3 · build
AND NOW THE PART NOBODY PUTS ON A SLIDE
New toys, new problems.
Who reviews 40 merge requests a day?
AI slop in production:
plausible, tested, reviewed — and wrong.
When an agent misjudges its own work,
75.8% of the time it claims success.
arxiv.org/abs/2605.29442
act 3 · build
OPEN SOURCE · SELF-HOSTED
github.com/ gtfo-ai/platform
Apache-2.0 · self-hosted · built in public
knowledge = markdown, in YOUR git repo
delete the platform → the knowledge stays
→ Status: implementation just started. Come break it.
act 3 · build
THE ADAPTATION
EXPERIENCED ENGINEER
↓
OPERATOR
less: typing the solution
more: building the CONTEXT
framing the PROBLEM
knowing when it is LYING
act 4 · you
A FRIEND ASKED ME
"Could I build myspeedpuzzling.com
with Claude, exactly like you did?"
My honest answer: YES.
act 4 · you
You know nothing, Jon Snow
— experience, to everyone with a fast agent
act 4 · you
BUT — you would need enough time to step in every single shit I did.
ANYONE can iterate to the same solution.
The real question is how many iterations —
and whether you notice you are wrong.
act 4 · you
MEANWHILE, FOR JUNIORS
−20%employment, devs aged 22–25, from the 2022 peak
15→7% — junior share of tech hiring (reported)
I am thrilled about what I can do with Claude Code
BECAUSE of 20 years of scar tissue.
A junior does not have that yet.
Software can replace them. Easily.
source: Stanford Digital Economy Lab
act 4 · you
[ MY OPINION — AGAIN ]
Healthy companies with the budget should invest in juniors.
Not charity. Compound interest.
In 15 years there will be no seniors
if nobody grows any.
act 4 · you
BACK TO THE SPOILER
Will developers be jobless?
YES. But not you.
— assuming you are already uncomfortable
act 4 · you
HOW FAR IS YOUR COMPANY?
1.What tools are you actually using?
2.What have you built yourself?
3.How satisfied are you, honestly?
techmeetup-43-2 .janmikes.cz
github.com/gtfo-ai/platform · janmikes.cz
I genuinely want to know. Find me — there will be beer.
