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AI Week Melbourne brought two dozen AI events to the city in a week. So we're bringing it to Sydney: December 6–13. Conferences, hack days, meetups, workshops — from AI Engineer, our partners, and maybe even you. NeurIPS is in town the same week. aiweek.com.au

"It's 10 out of 10 for AI Engineer, it's 10 out of 10 for Web Directions and John Allsopp." — Ron Au, Canva, at AI Engineer Melbourne. AI Engineer Sydney: Dec 7–8. Tickets + CFP open now. webdirections.org/ai-engineer

Reminds me of this morning many years ago

Thiago Shimada Ramos: What does it look like to build AI agents that never touch the internet? AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Dave Hall: I got frustrated. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Stephen Sennett: Most developers pick their AI model the same way: use the biggest, smartest one available for everything. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Andy Kelk: When you roll out AI coding tools, you expect pushback about job security and workflow disruption. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Jason Cornwall: Most “AI gives you 10x productivity” stories assume coding is the bottleneck. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Agent memory degrades over hundreds of sessions. Benchmarks miss this completely. Ananya Roy on memory as the real production failure mode. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Rob Manson: What's the role of the web in our modern AI future... AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Charli Posner: Can you faithfully edit hand-drawn illustrations using an image model you haven’t fine-tuned? AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Small language model beat Avni Bhatt's LLM for structured extraction. Lower latency, cut costs, better reliability. Hybrid patterns. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Nick Beaugeard: AI demos are easy. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Aubrey Blanche: Responsible AI isn't culturally neutral. Australian "fair go" principles reshape governance frameworks away from Silicon Valley assumptions. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Prem Pillai: Every engineering team trying to automate developer workflows with AI agents hits the same wall: the iteration tax. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Justin Barias: When I joined my current team, it was a familiar pattern: 6-8 experiments over a year, each taking 10-12 weeks, 60-70% of the time burned on infrastructure, one thing in production held together with duct tape, an... AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Geoff Huntley: Software development as we knew it is dead. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Lovee Jain: AI agents aren’t magic. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

When do multi-agent systems add value? Anannya Roy Chowdhury shares real metrics from AWS on where the complexity payoff exists. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Culture first, then tech. Eric took that approach to AI adoption—and it transformed how his organization works. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 webdirections.org/ai-engineer

Yicheng Guo: We shipped one of REA Group’s first generative AI features to production: Property Highlights, which turns long real-estate listings into three skimmable takeaways. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Notion ships sandboxed workers in their agent platform. Adam Hudson on safely executing third-party code inside agents. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Ally Macdonald: What happens when you need to build hundreds of interactive science and maths games at scale? AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Navan Tirupathi: Most AI agents are reactive chatbots—great for one-off queries, but they reset, forget, and lack initiative, failing in real-world use like personal assistants or autonomous workflows. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Jeremy Kelaher: Despite all the hype and promise, we are in the Timeshare Mainframe moment of AI. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Daniel Rodgers-Pryor: Autocomplete is *so* 2023. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Simon Knox: Cloud outages used to mean your site went down, maybe you couldn’t deploy. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Matthew Gillard: The email didnt have what I submitted... AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org