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Matthew Blode

Speaking

Meetups, panels, and internal sessions on shipping with AI, without the slop.

I talk about zero-to-one product, agents in production, and why users can feel when you stopped editing. Tell me the room, the date, and how long you want.

Contact. Audience, date, length, city or remote. I reply to most things within a few days.

Not sales keynotes, and not “the future of AI” with no product in it.

Slides from past talks live on this site and recordings are linked where they exist. Reuse them by linking, not by passing them off as your own.

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Talks

Agents in production

July 2026 · Vercel Ship Sydney · Machine Hall, Sydney

Panel on agents in production with Auto & General and CommBank, moderated by Vercel.

Recap

Writing 90% of my code with AI

June 2026 · Agents After Dark · Podcast

Writing most of my code with AI and shipping it safely to millions of Linktree users: plan mode, layered agent and human review, feature flags, and evals.

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Care made easy

May 2026 · Claude Community Australia · AWS, Melbourne

The tools I've built over two years to ship fast without cutting corners.

Slides

Unblocking Yourself with AI

May 2026 · Linktree · Melbourne

How we run AI tools across a 10 year old codebase and 200+ engineers. 20 parallel agent branches, PRs that land overnight.

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You can sense carelessness

February 2026 · Next.js Melbourne meetup · BuildPass, Melbourne

Users notice when you cut corners, even when they never see the code. Why the invisible details still shape how a product feels.

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Ship fast or die

January 2026 · Startmate mentor session · Melbourne

A working session for the latest Startmate cohort. Claude Code workflows, what actually slows early teams down, and when going slower is faster.

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You don't have to make AI slop

January 2026 · Melbourne builder meetup · Melbourne

AI makes it easy to ship faster. It also makes it easy to ship worse. The habits that keep the bar high when you're building with AI every day.

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Building at different scales

July 2025 · The Outlook panel · Melbourne

What changes when you go from three people to Atlassian scale? Panel with Tarra van Amerongen and Trudi Boatwright.

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