# BSOTA — Building the State of the Art

> An IRL event series in San Francisco where agentic computing practitioners
> experiment live in small groups and record what they learn. Hosted by Everett
> Kleven and Lee Flannery at The Commons. Recordings on Rally SF.

Full content as markdown: https://bsota.org/index.md

## Sessions
- [State of the Art Agentic Coding Workflows](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2JQR1-oAhg) (event 2026-06-23): The longest session so far. Skills dominated — how builders package repeatable procedure so an agent can be trusted with it — alongside review discipline, evals, and the first real comparisons across Claude Code, Codex, and Fable.
- [AI Orchestration with Conductor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbjQS_eqEco) (event 2026-03-17): Session one covered Claude Code in the terminal; this one stepped up to the orchestration layer — several agents running in parallel on isolated branches with Conductor. Daniel presented a case study rebuilding a production platform with two developers in two months, then demoed Conductor live.
- [Building the State of the Art of Claude Code](https://bsota.org/#sessions) (event 2026-02-17): The first session. Shared vocabulary for Claude Code — tools, commands, hooks, CLAUDE.md, skills, MCP, subagents, plugins — then straight into breakout groups to try techniques and report back.
- [Claude Code in the Wild: 3 Builder Demos (+ Fable 5)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqKZo6kmjrs) (published 2026-06-28): Three builders demo what they actually ship with, plus a first look at Fable 5. Orchestration and harness design carried the night.
- [4 Real Agentic Coding Workflows](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ChmzWNLAK0) (published 2026-06-07): Four builders walk through the workflow they genuinely use, end to end. Specs an agent can execute, pull requests small enough to review, and token budgets as an architectural constraint.

## Links
- Recordings: https://www.youtube.com/@RallySF
- Contact: ekleven@vangelis.tech