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AustinPHP @ ESC13 // Before the First Prompt

David Stanley, VP of engineering at Gymdesk, gives a remote talk for the Austin PHP meetup about adopting AI coding agents inside legacy, brownfield codebases. Following a colleague's account of eight months of heavy Claude use, he covers m

Starts

2026-10-09T00:00:00+00:00

Organizer

Austin PHP Meetup

Location

Education Service Center Region 13, 5701 Springdale Rd, Austin, United States

David Stanley, VP of engineering at Gymdesk, gives a remote talk for the Austin PHP meetup about adopting AI coding agents inside legacy, brownfield codebases. Following a colleague's account of eight months of heavy Claude use, he covers mental models for what an agent is and is not, what agents need from an existing codebase, habits that help a team's first week, and how one engineer's experiment becomes a group practice with guardrails.