events

Before the First Prompt

David Stanley, VP of Engineering at Gymdesk, gives a talk hosted by the Seattle PHP User Group and streamed live as part of the MergePHP collective. It follows a September session on eight months of Claude adoption at Gymdesk and covers wha

Starts

2026-10-16T00:00:00+00:00

Organizer

Seattle PHP User Group

Location

Online event

David Stanley, VP of Engineering at Gymdesk, gives a talk hosted by the Seattle PHP User Group and streamed live as part of the MergePHP collective. It follows a September session on eight months of Claude adoption at Gymdesk and covers what comes before a first prompt: how to think about coding agents in a legacy, brownfield application, what they need from an existing codebase, habits for a first week, and moving from one engineer experimenting to a team shipping with guardrails. It closes on gates, metrics and pace.