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Augmented Coding Lean Coffee

Hosted by Matt Wynne and Jeremy Lightsmith

Thu, Oct 8, 2026

7:00 PM UTC (1 hour)

Virtual (Zoom)

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Build a Software Factory: Hands-off agentic coding for experienced engineers
Matt Wynne, Aldric Giacomoni, David Laing, and Jeremy Lightsmith
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What you'll learn

Bring your puzzles

You can share your questions about agentic coding, software factories, and loops with like-minded peers.

Fight the slop

Less vibing, more thriving! We'll share our practices for keeping LLMs on track and writing you mum would be proud of.

Make some friends

Everything is changing so fast! We're all in this together, let's share our problems and help each other out.

Share cool stuff

If you've been doing something cool and interesting, bring it a long to share!

Why this topic matters

Everything is changing so fast, you don't know who will have the answer to your question. Instead of top-down learning, let's try sideways learning, where anybody can bring cool things and puzzles and learn from everybody else.

Here's how Lean Coffee works:

  1. Everyone adds topics.
  2. Everyone votes on topics
  3. Talk about #1 topic until the timer runs out
  4. Rinse and repeat

You'll learn from

Matt Wynne

Cucumber co-founder, co-author of The Cucumber Book, BDD pioneer.

Matt Wynne has been programming since the mid-1980s and advancing agile practices since discovering the C2 Wiki in 2001. He joined the Cucumber open source project in 2008 and co-authored The Cucumber Book with Cucumber's creator. In 2013 he co-founded Cucumber Ltd, growing it to roughly $1.5M in annual revenue while training thousands in Behaviour-Driven Development, and developed the Example Mapping practice along the way. After SmartBear acquired Cucumber in 2019, he led the open source project until 2023.

Jeremy Lightsmith

25 yrs in tech; helped teams modernize mainframes with LLMs

Jeremy Lightsmith cares about complexity. Across 25 years in tech he has stayed deeply technical while managing structural complexity not just in codebases but across teams and organizations — as a developer, consultant, agile/lean coach, startup founder/CEO, and now executive coach. Most recently he spent three years at Mechanical Orchard anchoring delivery teams and building tools as they used LLMs to modernize mainframes for Fortune 500 clients. Today he helps senior leaders manage new forms of complexity, navigate accelerating change, and rebuild trust as engineering loops are rewritten.

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