🍕 18:00 – 18:30 · Gathering, Pizza & Drinks 📣 18:30 – 18:45 · Welcome + Latest Claude Updates · Organizers 💻 18:45 – 19:15 · Everyone Builds with Claude. Only R&D Ships. So I Can Sleep at Night by Shahar Polak 👾 19:15 – 19:45 · Open Slot 🍻 19:45 – 20:00 · Drinks & Geek Out
Everyone Builds with Claude. Only R&D Ships. So I Can Sleep at Night Claude changed who gets to build software. At Imagen, that no longer means just R&D. Product, Operations, Support, and other teams can experiment, connect tools, and build working AI-powered solutions on their own. We decided not to fight that. Instead, we moved the boundary. Everyone can build. Only R&D ships to production. To make that possible, we built a harness that separates fast experimentation from production-grade software. It runs as a service on Kubernetes, with CI/CD, version control, and a shared execution layer. Every capability is packaged as a skill that combines scripts, connectors, instructions, and rules. That means people can move fast without needing to understand the infrastructure underneath. And when something proves useful enough to become a real product or internal tool, R&D can review it, harden it, and ship it through the same system. In this talk, I’ll walk through the architecture, break down a real skill, and share where we added guardrails, where we deliberately didn’t, and what we learned from letting the whole company build with Claude. The takeaway is simple: Don’t stop people from building. Build them a safe path to production. by Shahar Polak
