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2026 speaker

Redvers Davies

Redvers Davies

Polyglot, Professional InfoSec Troubleseeker, and diaeresis activist.

and diaeresis activist.

Charlotte, NC

Red is a full-time InfoSec Troubleseeker who started his professional life building ISPs, when the only interview questions were: “Do you know what a Web-Browser is?”, and “Do you think you can get NCSA httpd to compile on AIX?”.

After scaling an ISP from a few thousand users to millions, Red wrote award winning network discovery software and promptly had his IP stolen by a company with more Lawyers than developers.

Red now works in Information Security doing “AllTheThings”™, and spends his spare time playing with family, designing electronic badges for Security Conferences, exploring languages (both human and computer), and trying to squeeze every single cycle of performance out of his systems.

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2026 · intermediate

My Little Claude: Codegen Isn’t Magic

How do AI code generators like Claude Code perform with languages with a very small public corpus?

Mere months ago, a typical “Ask a user their name and then greet them” prompt resulted in an abominative amalgamate of python, java, and sortof-pony.

It didn’t compile. So, “Poorly”™

So how did we go from this sad state of affairs to now having Claude Code routinely contribute high quality libraries and tooling to our ecosystem?

How did we get Claude Code routinely tackling and solving compiler and runtime bugs that had been sitting in our Github Issues queues, in some cases for years?

This is the story of how we leveraged Claude from Zero to building from scratch a new Webserver, Web Application Server, Websocket Implementation, Json Parser, and Liveview-Equivalent libraries in approximately 45 days.

This is the story of how we taught Claude Pony… and how to teach Claude new tricks.

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