Coding with AI, a Panel with Senior Software Engineers - STS 42 Hour Hackathon

Описание: The 42 Hours for AI Impact Hackathon (Feb 24–26, 2026) was our first time hosting a hackathon ourselves, inviting our community to build real, reusable AI assets, and pairing them with the same developers who helped build STS.

This panel was the capstone of Day 1.

STS CEO, Francis Dion sits down with four senior developers from TLM — the startup studio behind much of the STS platform — plus quantitative finance innovator Jonathan Borduas, for an unscripted conversation about what it actually looks like to build software with AI today. No hype. Just practitioners being honest.
What gets covered:

How one developer is getting the output of ~20 engineers for $4,000/month in AI tokens
Why the job of a developer is now about writing specifications, not code
What a "swarm" of autonomous agents working while you sleep looks like in practice
The real downside: becoming the bottleneck for your own AI workforce
Why junior developers face a serious challenge — and what to do about it
Bold 12-month predictions from people who are already living the future
And Francis's closing provocation: you can 10x coding speed, but you can't 10x the time it takes humans to think and align

Featuring:
Pierre Leduc — Senior Developer, TLM (32 years experience, AI-first workflow)
Simon Côté — Full Stack & AI Developer, TLM
David Thaibault — Developer & Continuous Improvement Lead, TLM
Jonathan Borduas — Physicist, 3D innovation pioneer, now building game-theory LLMs for quantitative finance
Francis Dion — CEO, Strategic Thinking Systems

This one's for our community — the people who've been building with us since the beginning, and the newcomers who are just now finding STS. We're proud of what we built together over 42 hours, and this panel captures much of why it mattered.

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