March 2026 Meeting
The March 2026 meeting of LRUG will be on Monday the 9th of March, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm (meeting starts at 6:30pm).
This month we’re hosted by our friends at Intercom in their offices, on Old St. Full venue and registration details are given below.
Agenda
Food & Drink
Our lovely hosts are providing some food and drink during the meeting.
If agentic coding is the tool shift, what’s the role shift?
Andy Walker says:
In this talk I’ll compare today’s AI moment to past tech S-curves, and argue it’s not only a toolset change that’s required (learning to code agentically) but a deeper change in how we work.
I’ll cover the mindset and capability shifts this demands: outcome ownership, faster feedback loops, more autonomy. I’ll cover what engineers can do to meet the moment.
I’ll also share how this is changing the way I think about hiring and scaling teams: what signals matter now, and how we’re adapting interview loops to find people who thrive in an agentic world
RAG on Rails
Neil Cameron says:
A brief guide to building out a retrieval augmented generation system on Rails.
We’ll cover some of the basic (chunking, embeddings) and some not so basic things (why bother re-ranking). You’ll come away with an understanding of the different moving parts of a RAG system and some tactical recommendations of gems and services to use.
Afterwards
When the talks come to an end we’ll move to a nearby pub for some food, some drinks and some chat with your fellow attendees.
Of course, even though this is the socialising part and seems more informal, please remember that still we consider it to be a part of the meeting and covered by our code of conduct.
Venue & Registration
Prior to attending you should familiarise yourself with our README paying close attention to the code of conduct which applies to all attendees.
Secure your place
Our hosts have limited space so you to be guaranteed entry you need to register for a free ticket via TicketTailor.
We’ll email you on the day of the event with a link to get a QR code to checkin when you arrive
Venue
The address of the venue:
Intercom
9th Floor
The Warehouse
211 Old St
London
EC1V 9NR
See on a map
The venue has a hard limit of 80 people. If you register and realise you can’t come, please use let us know via TickeTailor so we can give your place to someone in your place. We might be able to let in people on the night who haven’t registered, but we can’t guarantee it.
Posted by Frederick Cheung on Feb 15, 2026