--- schema: 1 type: video title: >- Collaborative AI Engineering: One Dev, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment — Maggie Appleton, GitHub description: >- Agentic engineering so far has been a solo story: one developer and a dozen agents moving at warp speed. But speed without thoughtful planning and team alignment is just wasting tokens. When everyone on a team is directing agents alone in their personal CLI tools with no shared context, you get duplicate work, conflicting changes, poorly-designed solutions, surprise features nobody else agreed to build, and everyone pulling in different directions. Serious software still requires serious collaboration. You need multiple perspectives and types of expertise to build great things. We need agentic environments where people can plan together, think critically together, and share the same context. In this talk I'll demo how we've tackled these design problems in Ace, a multiplayer agent environment from GitHub Next that uses real-time collaboration, proactive agents, and sandboxed micro VMs for rapid prototyping and exploration. Speaker info: - https://x.com/Mappletons --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/ClWD8OEYgp8-one-developer-two-dozen-agents-zero-alignment-why-we-need-collaborative-ai-engineering Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- canonical: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8' markdown: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8.md' llms: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8/llms.txt' parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md' channel: aidotengineer updated: '2026-10-24T14:51:59.047Z' language: null children: [] videoId: ClWD8OEYgp8 durationSeconds: 1063 publishedAt: '2026-04-26T15:00:06.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 25 endSeconds: 105 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=25' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 25 endSeconds: 105 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=25' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 117 endSeconds: 248 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=117' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 117 endSeconds: 248 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=117' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 117 endSeconds: 248 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=117' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 117 endSeconds: 248 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=117' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 260 endSeconds: 348 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=260' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 260 endSeconds: 348 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=260' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 260 endSeconds: 348 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=260' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 348 endSeconds: 361 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=348' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 361 endSeconds: 459 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=361' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 361 endSeconds: 459 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=361' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 361 endSeconds: 459 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=361' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 470 endSeconds: 603 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=470' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 603 endSeconds: 614 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=603' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 614 endSeconds: 721 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=614' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 16 text: null startSeconds: 614 endSeconds: 721 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=614' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 17 text: null startSeconds: 614 endSeconds: 721 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=614' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 18 text: null startSeconds: 721 endSeconds: 732 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=721' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 19 text: null startSeconds: 732 endSeconds: 845 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=732' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 20 text: null startSeconds: 732 endSeconds: 845 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=732' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 21 text: null startSeconds: 856 endSeconds: 956 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=856' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 22 text: null startSeconds: 856 endSeconds: 956 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=856' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 23 text: null startSeconds: 956 endSeconds: 968 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=956' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 24 text: null startSeconds: 968 endSeconds: 1063 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8?t=968' heldReason: rights --- # Collaborative AI Engineering: One Dev, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment — Maggie Appleton, GitHub Agentic engineering so far has been a solo story: one developer and a dozen agents moving at warp speed. But speed without thoughtful planning and team alignment is just wasting tokens. When everyone on a team is directing agents alone in their personal CLI tools with no shared context, you get duplicate work, conflicting changes, poorly-designed solutions, surprise features nobody else agreed to build, and everyone pulling in different directions. Serious software still requires serious collaboration. You need multiple perspectives and types of expertise to build great things. We need agentic environments where people can plan together, think critically together, and share the same context. In this talk I'll demo how we've tackled these design problems in Ace, a multiplayer agent environment from GitHub Next that uses real-time collaboration, proactive agents, and sandboxed micro VMs for rapid prototyping and exploration. Speaker info: - https://x.com/Mappletons --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/ClWD8OEYgp8-one-developer-two-dozen-agents-zero-alignment-why-we-need-collaborative-ai-engineering Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ClWD8OEYgp8 · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks > Missing: no stored document chunks are available.