Bruce Tate Live
Bruce takes the topics from his AI Crises Series and his Groxio training work and turns them into 60-minute live sessions. Real questions, no slides, no script. The kind of room where engineering managers and senior engineers think out loud about what AI is doing to the work.
Free to attend. Recorded for subscribers. 1st and 3rd Thursdays.
First sessions
Session 1
Red/Green Indicators: how to tell when the agent is wrong
June 2026 (date TBD)
Session 2
Is the junior developer career path dead?
June 2026 (date TBD)
The first two sessions are scheduled. Topics are pulled from real conversations with engineering teams Bruce works with.
Session 1
June 2026 (date TBD)The quick inspection points that let a reviewer judge AI-generated code without reading every line. Where in the diff to land your attention first. What fits this codebase looks like in 30 seconds. The exact red flags that mean throw it away and ask again. Live, with real PRs.
This is the senior-review work the AI Engineering Enablement training teaches — condensed into one session.
Session 2
June 2026 (date TBD)The industry's answer is hire fewer juniors. Bruce's answer is the opposite: train them. This session walks through what changes when juniors operate at architectural level on day one, what's actually teachable, and what an org has to do differently to grow the seniors of 2030.
Same argument as the How Juniors Become Seniors essay — but live, with team-specific questions.
Pulled from the same well as Bruce's article series and the team-training engagements:
What throw it away actually looks like in a real PR
The discipline, the conversation with the author, and the team norms that make it stick.
Functional duplication: how to find it without an AI auditor
Quick scans, naming patterns, and the seams where drift hides.
IoC seams under AI pressure
Protocols, behaviours, dependency injection, and the architectural work agents can't do.
Prompt layering as software design
Composing prompts the way you'd compose modules.
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Why these sessions exist
"I write the essays. Then I sit with engineering teams and the same questions come up — red/green indicators, what's worth throwing away, how to grow juniors who can do this work. The lives are that conversation, in public. People who show up are usually halfway to the answer; they just haven't said it out loud yet. The room helps them get there."
These aren't webinars. They're not pitches. They're a small public version of the work Bruce does inside engagements — and they're free because the conversation tends to be more useful than anything we'd charge for.
About Bruce Tate
Bruce is the author of more than ten programming books, including Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, Programming Phoenix, and Designing Elixir Systems with OTP. He's been training engineering teams for two decades. He runs Groxio, a teaching company focused on Elixir, OTP, Phoenix, LiveView, and the discipline around AI-assisted engineering.
The live sessions are an extension of the AI Crises Series — same audience, same questions, more room to think out loud.
For engineering managers attending these
AI Engineering Enablement is a private 3–4 day intensive plus ongoing advisory for engineering teams adopting AI on real Elixir codebases. It is the training that the live sessions are condensed from, scoped through a diagnostic conversation.
The first step is a short conversation. No pitch deck, no proposal up front. We look at your team's current Elixir experience, AI usage, review bottlenecks, and architecture concerns, then decide together whether private training is the right fit.
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