Today’s lineup included Alvaro Lamarche Toloza (Mago), Antoine Sueur (Pletor), Gregory Zussa, Henri Mirande, Hugo Venturini (SkipLabs), Julien Duquesne (Scienta), Khaled Maâmra (Edgee), and Mehdi Medjaoui (A La French Podcast, Olympe.legal, GenerationAI Conferences).
Topics included, in no particular order: SRE and deployment practices at Meta, the new loop concept/buzzword of the week, AI gateway infrastructure for token optimization, the organizational and cultural friction of AI adoption across fragmented developer demographics, compute economics and the looming capital shortage, the frustration with Claude Fable 5 being incredibly expensive, slow, and purposefully limited on sensitive biological and AI research tasks, the strategic corporate pivot toward hosting local open-source models to escape proprietary bills, the productivity drain of over-inflated AI-generated tests clogging CI/CD pipelines, and the Dassault Systemes’ historical 2D version control system.