Tech Events by TechTalks Edinburgh (adhocSpace)

with Dmitriy Fedoryshchev (Lead Software Engineer, Independent)

Dmitriy Fedoryshchev, a lead software engineer, on how to tell whether agent-written code is making a codebase safer or riskier. His case study is modernising a 600-table, 21TB legacy core into microservices — the fifth attempt after four that failed — with a squad that went AI-native on a custom multi-agent system under one rule: only merge code you can explain. He also covers turning the rules the agent kept breaking into checks it cannot skip, built into his own open-source tooling. Tenth edition of the TechTalks Edinburgh series, at CodeBase on Castle Terrace. Doors 18:00 with pizza and drinks, opening talk 18:30, main talk 18:40, Q&A 19:30, pub afterwards. Free, 100 places on Meetup. Partners include CodeBase and Scottish Technology Club. Why go: the most concrete Edinburgh talk this autumn on AI-generated code in a real legacy migration rather than a demo repo. Best for engineers and tech leads deciding how far to let agents into production.

with Tim Leslie (Engineering Manager & AI Learning Lead, Skyscanner)

If AI lets teams ship working features in days or hours, does a fortnightly refinement meeting still make sense? That's the question for TechTalks #11. Tim Leslie, Engineering Manager and AI Learning Lead at Skyscanner, gives the main talk. He leads AI learning for Skyscanner's 950 engineers and has 12 years running teams of up to 40. He'll look at how ways of working should change when agents and software factories do more of the building. Doors, pizza and drinks at 18:00, opening talk 18:30, main talk 18:40, Q&A 19:30, then networking and a pub afterparty from 20:00. Free, at CodeBase. Why go: you get the view from someone rolling AI out across a large engineering org, not a vendor. Good for engineering managers, delivery leads and engineers rethinking how their team plans work.

with Noon van der Silk (Speaker, )

The ninth edition of TechTalks Edinburgh tackles two of the moment's most talked-about developer topics: Nix (reproducible builds and declarative environments) and AI-driven development — how engineers are folding LLM coding agents into real delivery workflows. Expect concrete, practitioner-led talks, honest lessons and post-talk networking at Clockwise in Leith. Strong pick for software developers, platform engineers and anyone rethinking their toolchain in the AI era.

Two technical talks for engineers and security practitioners at CodeBase. Oleksandr Piekhota (Principal Engineer, Teaching Strategies) walks through 'AI Agents Explained: Skills, Loops and MCP', then Security Operations Analyst Cameron Cottam pulls back the curtain on practical threat intelligence work. Networking, pizza and drinks afterwards.