Lightning Talks!

When

Thursday April 16^th, 2026 @ 5:30 PM

Who

Peter Hellmuth and Mark Wardell

Where

SmartDraw Software

RSVP

We are doing something a little different for our April 2026 meetup: Lightning Talks⚡⚡⚡!

Two speakers, 15-20 minutes each.

Our Lightning Talk Lineup

Mutant RALPH: Squeezing LLM Code with Adversarial Mutation Testing

Speaker: Peter Hellmuth, Senior Full Stack Developer at Logisolve

What if your AI coding agent had an adversary? A systems engineering experiment with a bash-orchestrated loop pitting a Writer agent against an Adversary using mutation testing (Stryker.NET). Identifies gaps in requirement enforcement, forces resolution of ambiguities through deterministic mutant killing.

Level: Intermediate Topics: C#, Architecture, Testing, Patterns & Best Practices, AI/ML

The Anatomy of a Smart Repo: Repo-Driven Development in 15 Minutes

Speaker: Mark Wardell, Founder at The Middle Way Software

You’ve got GitHub Copilot, Claude, or Cursor — and your AI still wanders. Mark breaks down Repo-Driven Development (RDD): a lightweight methodology that turns your Git repository into an intelligent project manager for AI-assisted coding. In 15 minutes you’ll see what makes a repo “smart” — structured issues, intentional epics, and pipeline conventions that tell your LLM what to build, in what order, and within what guardrails.

Level: Intermediate Topics: Architecture, AI/ML, Career Development

If this sounds like fun, please submit our speaker interest form here: https://forms.gle/aVzeVpvVhAkdfWLy7

Food / Drinks

Food and drinks will be provided! Please contact us (on meetup) if you have any dietary restrictions/food allergies.

Directions and Parking Instructions

Meeting will be held in the offices of SmartDraw Software, 1780 Hughes Landing Blvd #1100 on the 11th floor. Free parking is available in the adjacent garage.