Date: Thursday, 20 August 2026 Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Venue: CodeBase Edinburgh, 37a Castle Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2EL
TechTalks #9 comes with a new format — one talk per event, so there’s room to go deeper and leave more time for questions. This time it’s Nix and what reproducibility means when most of the code is written with AI. Register on Meetup →
Talks
Should I use Nix for my next AI project?
Noon van der Silk We’re all hacking with AI these days, writing in pretty much any language we choose. So do we still need package management? Reproducibility? Deployment? Collaboration? Perhaps. Noon explores what Nix adds to AI-driven development workflows from at least three perspectives.
Agenda
| Time | What |
|---|---|
| 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM | Welcome · pizza · drinks · networking |
| 6:30 PM – 6:40 PM | Opening talk |
| 6:40 PM – 7:30 PM | Main talk |
| 7:30 PM – 7:45 PM | Q&A |
| 7:45 PM – 8:00 PM | Drinks · networking · closing |
| 8:00 PM onwards | Afterparty at a nearby pub |
Speaker Spotlights
Noon van der Silk — Founder @ Invariant Club Noon has been programming for longer than he’s been alive. He has a background in mathematics, quantum computing, and functional programming, and now spends his time excited about reproducible and joyful software engineering. He last spoke at TechTalks #6, packaging 128 programming languages with Nix.
Partners
CodeBase · Dougray · Scottish Technology Club · Beyond Tech · Lyxonn
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