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1 Keynotes and Talks

Audiences love Steve's talks, and tell him how genuine they feel. He comes in with a message to get across, and no matter which twists and turns he takes with the room, the message always lands and entertains. He can make an audience laugh and inspire them to think deeply in the same hour.

Steve's keynotes are in high demand, in part because of his influential writing, and in part because he is recognized as being personally at the technological frontier of agentic coding, with his inventions of Beads and Gas Town. Popular keynote topics include The 8 Levels of Agentic Adoption, What It Actually Means to Be AI-Native, Vibe Coding and the Future of Software Engineering, and Gas City and Dark Factory Orchestration. He can also build a custom talk around your conference or company theme.

He also gives company-wide talks, because the first hurdle every company faces today is cultural alignment. If an organization doesn't want AI, it will fight any attempt to introduce it, and much of that resistance stems from fear and misconception. Steve paints a vivid, exciting picture of the new kinds of collaboration emerging, the new roles for junior developers, and how company culture can make or break the effort, giving everyone a common grounding and a mental framework for thinking about AI safely and sensibly. He draws on personal experience and on themes from his book Vibe Coding, co-authored with Gene Kim.

These full-org sessions are often attended by thousands (to the surprise of the IT departments), with rich Q&A at the end.

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2 Bespoke Meetings

Steve runs small, off-the-record sessions tailored to whichever audience you put in the room: leadership teams, principal engineers and researchers, early adopters, and skeptics. Fireside-style Q&A is great for making people feel heard: real questions, and low-key, honest, non-prepared answers. He isn't afraid of hard questions; he loves it when people challenge him, and he learns as much from each company he visits as they do from him. So bring your toughest questions.

Steve can stand toe to toe with the most senior engineers and researchers in the world, have direct technical discussions at any level, and speak to the state of the art in their domains. He has deep empathy for the difficulties they face, from AI slop to skills atrophy to 10x the security vulnerabilities, and he has actionable feedback for just about every camp a staff or principal engineer can find themselves in. A lot of his credibility comes from the fact that he isn't selling anything. He has been a principal himself, he uses AI with his own hands, and he compares notes with hundreds of people across the industry. Sometimes an outside confirmation is all it takes to get past a roadblock.

And nearly every organization has skeptics, and converting them is what Steve is most often brought in to do. As Annie Vella, Distinguished Engineer at Westpac NZ, once eloquently observed, "Principal Engineers at an organization cast a long shadow": if your senior technical contributors are AI skeptics, they have an outsized impact on adoption by everyone more junior. But skeptics don't have to be engineers; business leaders, the C-suite, even CEOs and boards of directors can be anti-AI or apathetic, and they may have very good, legitimate reasons. Steve meets them directly and has a frank, specific conversation about what's real, what's overblown, where their instincts are 100% on point, and what they need to start paying attention to. At one recent engagement, a team's most outspoken AI skeptic came up afterward and said, in so many words, "Okay, fine — I'm interested." They nearly always come away realizing he isn't advocating for anything crazy. Caution is his byword!

3 Vibe Coding Workshops & Masterclasses

Working with coding agents, effectively and efficiently, is the most important foundational literacy skill for civilization over the next few years.

Steve offers workshops in partnership with his co-author Gene Kim and Gene's company, IT Revolution. The two have been running vibe coding workshops since early 2025. Their book is now being taught at FAANG-class companies, and they've taught the course at conferences, banks, research labs and more. Steve has a proven, data-backed program that can guide your employees through the foundational levels of AI literacy in just a few sessions, and you can roll it out to your whole company by training the trainers.

The backbone of these workshops is Steve's 8-level AI adoption framework, first revealed in his Gas Town launch post, which took the world by storm. Everyone could find themselves easily on the chart and see how they were pushing into the next level, so it went viral on its own, independent from Gas Town. It gives teams a shared vocabulary, a clear sense of where they stand, and a concrete picture of what the next level looks like for them specifically, with tips, techniques, and mental models for students at every level.