Vibe Check at Replay '26: Day 2 w...

Vibe Check at Replay '26: Day 2 w/ Shabnam Emdadi, Francesc Campoy, Melissa Herrera, & Shy

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Day two of Vibe Check live from Replay 2026.

Shabnam Emdadi, staff software engineer at Shopify and Temporal Constellation member, on what AI frameworks are rediscovering from distributed systems, why retries are more expensive in an LLM world, and the case for judgment over one-more-prompt addiction.

Francesc Campoy, Go expert and JustForFunc creator, on his first take on Temporal after the Go workshop, the cognitive offloading vs cognitive surrender distinction, and why software engineering still matters in production.

Vibe Check co-hosts Melissa and Shy on the Replay keynote: Melissa's robot arm demo and agents workshop, and Shy's marathon to ship 2,300 hackable conference badges, including how Codex and Claude got the firmware over the line.

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