[devnexus 2026] how to run 1 on 1s for everyone

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Speaker: Alex Riviere (@fimion@notacult.social)

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Bad One on Ones

  • How was the conference?
  • Anything you want to talk about?
  • Ok, Talk to you next month

Assumption

  • Collaborative environment
  • Non-hostile environment (aka if your manager is trying to get you fired)

Types of one on ones

  • Manager to employee (or team lead to team member)
  • Peer to peer. People you work with
  • Employee to Manager. Employee leads meeting.

Expectations

  • Both parties state their expectations for the meeting
  • What’s important to you
  • ex: open and honest about how work makes you feel, clear understanding of work responsibilities or bring up if not, bring up if work not on track

[devnexus 2026] 10 things i hate about ai

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Speakers: Cody Frenzel & Laurie Lay

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General

  • Skeptics are useful
  • Don’t shut how haters down

AI Adoption Metrics

  • DORA – includes how often deploy and lead time to deploy changes
  • Developer time savings
  • PR throughput (instead of % of generated code)
  • Utilization, impact, cost

Other notes

  • Don’t mandate AI
  • Measure what matters
  • AI gains depend on foundation. Technical excellence matters. ex: testability, code reviews, quality gates
  • AI will write imperfect code; just like humans. Guzrd rzils prevent it from getting to prod.
  • Culture still matters more than tools

AI Literacy

  • Tool churn is normal for a new ecosystem. Just like JavaScript in the early days.
  • Maintain fundamentals. ex: code review, systems thinking
  • We learn through repetition, If we outsource that repetition we don’t learn. Juniors need to write by hand to gain intuition on how to program.
  • For seniors, can make instincts weaker, dull senses, lose detecting problems like scale. Need to have non AI periods. Don’t want to be able to assemble but not maintain
  • AI use involves self awareness

Things to hate include

  • AI slop
  • Bad ideas
  • Too many tools
  • Prompting is a skill
  • AI makes you week

My take

The Women in Tech lunch ran late and then I was talking to someone so I was 20 minutes late to this session. It was easy to jump into following from when I walked in though. I like the format of having the 10 things to hate and highlighting them in small groups to talk about concepts

[devnexus 2026] how i automated my life with mcp servers

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Speaker: Cedric Clyburn (@cedricclyburn)

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Note: This session is about running locally (aka not about OpenClaw)

Timeline

  • Started with only data the model had
  • Then RAG let you add your own data
  • Then could add tools to get real time results, but had to build unique API
  • Then MCP avoided the need to build all those APIs

Demo

  • Used Goose [I’ve read about it but first time seeing live]
  • Connected to/tested different models
  • Creating containers locally

My take

I couldn’t stay for the whole session as I was scheduled for a podcast. The part I saw was good. At lot of it was a demo which was fun. I enjoyed seeing the comparison between models.