WeAreDevelopers LIVE Sep 9, 2026

WeAreDevelopers LIVE - Project Chopin: Make Your Team and Agents Play Along

Chris Heilmann , Daniel Cranney , Krzysztof Cieślak

Are AI agents turning your development into an isolated, single-player game? Discover how Project Chopin uses Markdown to make coding with AI a collaborative, multiplayer workflow.

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#1 about 7 min

Introduction and upcoming developer events in San Jose

Updates on the WeAreDevelopers conference and reflections on retro gaming hardware.

#2 about 6 min

Product onboarding friction and invite-only application launches

How forced friction and invite-only models impact early user adoption.

#3 about 4 min

Managing browser tabs and network ad blocking

Strategies for handling browser tab overload and the shift toward privacy-focused tools.

#4 about 4 min

Cloud tools preferred by AI coding agents

An analysis of the external services and databases frequently selected by AI tools like Cursor.

#5 about 5 min

Evaluating citations in AI search engines

How AI amplifies existing internet problems like link farming and unreliable source indexing.

#6 about 5 min

Measuring the business impact of AI development tools

Why increased developer productivity with AI does not automatically translate to revenue growth.

#7 about 4 min

Security risks of autonomous AI coding agents

The dangers of agents installing hallucinated dependencies and bypassing corporate network audits.

#8 about 4 min

Visualizing geographical scale with map projections

How standard map projections distort country sizes and impact global perspective.

#9 about 8 min

Exploring early web design history and styling

A nostalgic look at 1990s HTML layouts, inline styles, and the evolution of CSS.

#10 about 3 min

The hidden hurdles of indie app development

Simulating the bureaucratic and marketing challenges developers face when launching app store products.

#11 about 9 min

Testing tech headlines in fake or news

A trivia game guessing the authenticity of bizarre AI and technology news headlines.

#12 about 5 min

Collaborative AI planning with Project Chopin

How Project Chopin enables multiplayer markdown editing and decision logging for software teams.

#13 about 17 min

Deploying and researching GitHub Next with Project Chopin

The rationale behind open-sourcing GitHub Next experiments and instructions for self-hosting the tool.

#14 about 6 min

Keyboard-driven macOS file management with Marta

How the Marta file manager improves macOS productivity with two-pane navigation and plugin support.

Matching moments

1:55 min

Shifting developer workloads and realistic AI productivity gains

Chris Heilmann +2 · LIVE

49 sec

Integrating AI agents as collaborative software team members

Mike Mike · World Congress 2025

46 sec

Shifting from chat interfaces to autonomous agentic co-piloting

Sergej Reznik Sergej Reznik · Europe 2026 Virtual

2:22 min

Orchestrating local developer environments with AI tools

Angie Jones Angie Jones · World Congress 2025

4:04 min

Introduction to GitHub Next and AI prototyping

Krzystof Czieslak · LIVE

2:34 min

Balancing developer autonomy with the adoption of coding agents

Clemens Wasner Clemens Wasner +4 · World Congress 2026 Europe

Upcoming sessions on this topic

Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Stage 6

Accelerating development and managing agents with the GitHub Copilot app

Christopher Harrison

Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub

Christopher Harrison
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 23, 2026 · 13:15–15:15

Stage 9

DeepAgents: Build Multi-Agent AI Systems That Actually Work

Anagha Rumade, Anjana Umapathy, Apoorva Jaiswal

Anagha Rumade
Anjana Umapathy
Apoorva Jaiswal
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 23, 2026 · 13:40–14:10

Stage 2

Building an AI-Native Development Workflow

Vanessa Minik

Senior Service Delivery Engineer, GitHub

Vanessa Minik
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 12:30–14:30

Stage 14

Build a Human + AI Agent Team in tools like Slack, Teams and Discord.

Phil Conway

Developer Advocate at Flint AI (SandboxAQ)

Phil Conway
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 23, 2026 · 10:00–17:00

Stage 14

From Idea to Production with AI: Agentic Development in Practice

Daniel Ostrovsky

UI/UX Architect at Payoneer | AI Architect | Full Cycle Development Expert | Public Speaker | Open Source Contributor |

Daniel Ostrovsky
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 5

From Software Agents to Physical Devices: Inside the Agentic Hardware Stack

Michael Yuan, Vivian Hu

Michael Yuan
Vivian Hu