Cautionary Tales from the Age of AI

About This Event

While social media is flooded with viral clips of AI agents building entire software applications from scratch, the reality of deploying these tools inside production engineering teams tells a vastly different story.
Join us at the Cloudera Budapest office (or tune in via our live broadcast) for an evening of real-world war stories, production caveats, and honest discussions around AI tooling. We are moving past the demo hype to explore what happens when AI meets enterprise-scale codebase complexities and production Kubernetes clusters.

Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Time: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM CEST
Duration: 3 Hours
Format: In-Person & Socialive Broadcast
Host: Samriddhi Bhatnagar | Márk Sági-Kazár
Location: Cloudera Budapest, Széchenyi István tér 7-8, 1051 Budapest

Agenda

• 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM CEST | Doors Open, Settle Down & Pre-Talk Networking
• 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM CEST | Talk 1: Surviving the Era of AI Demo Theater
• Speaker: Yurii Palamarchuk (Software Engineer, Cloudera)
• Abstract: Flashy AI demos excel at generating generic boilerplate, but they struggle—and incur hidden time and productivity costs—when tasked with building the complex, domain-specific custom logic that modern software requires. Yurii explores the growing disconnect between social media hype and real-world engineering, the critical security and quality risks of merging AI code without human review, and why manual code literacy remains a crucial competitive advantage.
• 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM CEST | Talk 2: Letting an AI Agent Loose on Kubernetes: Two Stories, One Caveat
• Speaker: Péter Megyesi (CEO, l7mp)
• Abstract: AI agents aren't just for writing code—DevOps might actually be where they offer the highest leverage. Péter shares two operational war stories: using Claude Code to recover a 6-year-old cluster with dead Rook/Ceph storage in 45 minutes, and building a development environment for a Voice AI platform in hours instead of days. The catch: It only works this effectively if you deeply understand what is happening under the hood.
• 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM CEST | Q&A, Post-Talk Networking & Refreshments

What You Will Learn

• How to evaluate the real productivity impact of AI code generators versus the hidden maintenance overhead of boilerplate.
• Key safety practices and code review workflows when integrating agentic tools into engineering teams.
• Real-world strategies for using AI agents safely within Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure automation.