I haven't posted since DevCon - other than the excellent guest posts being contributed by Patrick Nadeau - as we've entered quite a busy time of year. My team has now delivered a couple of shareouts for our company's senior leadership, and we'll shortly be going into the Research organisation's mid-year review cycle for our various projects.
Anyway, this week has given me a bit of a breather: while Friday was a holiday in Switzerland, today is a holiday in the UK and Canada, presumably for Star Wars Day. May The Fourth Be With You Always!
At the weekend I'll be jumping on a flight (well, a couple of flights) to Seattle. It will be the first time I'll have visited in probably 25 years. I was reminded of the great city last night as my family and I watched "Say Anything", which has just shown up on Netflix. I'd completely forgotten it was set in Seattle, but there you go.
It was one of my absolutely favourite movies when I was 16. I watched it alongside my 16-year-old daughter, who remarked that the boombox scene was surprisingly short considering how iconic it was. I checked - she was absolutely right: I had remembered it as being the centrepiece of the whole film, but it was basically a minute long. It's strange how memory works.
Anyway, all being well I'll arrive in Seattle late on Saturday, and will have a day to get over jetlag before attending an internal technical leadership event - which should be absolutely fascinating, given the evolution of agentic development tooling, this year - and then our TechX geekfest from Tuesday to Thursday.
I'll be flying back very slightly early from Seattle to get across to Spain's Costa Blanca, where a good friend is celebrating his 60th over the weekend. And no, it's not in Benidorm itself, although I might pop by for a plate of egg and chips. When in Spain and all that.
I'll then fly from Alicante to Berlin, where I'll attend the Machine+Behavior conference at the Max Planck Institute's Harnack House before flying back home after the Behavioral Clones workshop on May 20th.
It's going to be a busy 10 days, but should be really interesting in a variety of ways. I have another 10-day trip coming up in the second half of June - this time to Canada - but I'll talk more about that in due course.
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