Wrote up some thoughts on the #ldx3 conference I attended. Ended up using a sequence diagram sorry not sorry.

Wrote up some thoughts on the #ldx3 conference I attended. Ended up using a sequence diagram sorry not sorry.
Thoroughly loved #LDX3 this year. The new format is a massive improvement to the @leaddev.com conferences, which were already very good. Also, some of the best engineering talks I’ve seen in a while. Would go again.
All the conversations in the hallway track and most of the talks at @leaddev.com are about AI agents.
Everyone is so factory pulled right now - Andrew Zigler
Avoid vanity metrics (on left, focus on the impact metrics (on right).
Marcel Weeks, VP at @figma.com , talking at #ldx3:
if you’re at #ldx3 I’ll be signing copies of Observability Engineering at 12:30 with @charity.wtf at the O’Reilly booth. Come thru!
Happening in 15.
AI maturity magic quadrant from @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com's #ldx3 presentation.
"Non engineers are still not shipping prod code" - @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com
"Engineering specialization is disappearing" with the help of GenAI - @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com
People are hiring "builders" not iOS or Android engineers.
"The IDE is a legacy product " - @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com
Meta in early 2026 from @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com
Guess who I ran into at @leaddev.com 's #ldx3 ?
@chadrstewart.bsky.social !
Like cool stickers? We have them at booth 503 at #ldx3.
I'm in NYC for the #LDX3 conference, and I got to stop and talk to the @honeycomb.io ppl during setup. Deep technical conversation about vendors and ROI ...
what? Of course it was about stickers. We're so back, baby.