Claude Code might be the most significant event of 2025 in the field of AI. For me, it changed the course of the year and led me to unthinkable places. I followed every twist and turn and stayed on top of the wave. What an amazing tool that delivers on its promise. It amplifies and scales your ability, keeps you moving forward, and leads to some serious compounding.

An overlooked impact of AI is its compounding nature. From the first prompt, where everything is wrong. But, slowly, you learn, you figure out how to harness. At some point, you forget about the first hallucination, and you are in a new spot. When I talk to others, I can immediately tell where they are on the curve by how they talk about these tools. A scary thing, though, is how far behind you can get, and that you might not be able to catch up to those who have started. If you do anything this month, go down the bumpy road and get on the other side.

As they say, AI Engineer Code is by invitation only. They have hand-selected the top builders and leaders in AI Engineering for a highly curated experience. The team behind the event also helped organize meetups and hackathons happening around the city.

Some interesting sessions (from descriptions) that I am looking forward to:

• 2026: The Year the IDE Died by Steve Yegge, Sourcegraph, and Gene Kim, IT Revolution
• Autonomy Is All You Need by Michele Catasta, Replit
• Don’t Build Agents, Build Skills Instead by Barry Zhang and Mahesh Murag, Anthropic
• Research to Reality with Google DeepMind by Kat Kampf and Ammaar Reshi, Google

Some of the AI Engineer Code events will be live-streamed on YouTube. Check out the video here:

I will share my thoughts on the experience and key takeaways after the events, seminars, and workshops. Should be awesome, profound, scary, and awesome.

Side note: On the AI Engineer Code site, there was a cool wave ASCII art animation that showed the AIE logo, NYC landmarks in an animated wave. I used Claude to make me one.