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Last Tuesday we hosted the second event in our Valon AI Series featuring Hongxia Zhong, Hugh Han, Nicole Foster, and Jon Kruger. What we walked through: Hongxia on how AI tools actually take hold at Valon: - Claude/Codex skills get pushed nightly to every engineer's laptop, so the whole company shares one library - All-hands demos every other week — most adoption happens in the Slack threads right after - When something useful takes off, engineers get moved onto it Hugh on Gestalt, the internal AI connection platform we've been building since January: - Single web UI for anyone — engineer or not — to connect to BigQuery, Datadog, Slack, GitHub, Linear, and our internal apps with authentication handled - No dependencies on any specific tool/harness, and any team can add a new internal system with a small provider Nicole on nicolebot, our company-wide Slack agent: - 21,000+ Slack threads tagged, 2,000+ PRs opened, ~$XXK on tokens last month — used by engineering, finance, deployment and people teams - One agent rather than separate bots per function — context compounds across teams - Often opens incident investigations and drafts fix PRs before the on-call engineer has even seen the page - Also heard nicolebot is great at giving lunch recs... Jon on the workflow orchestration platform — "Airflow for mortgage servicing": - Migrating 100+ servicing processes onto the platform inside a year - AI's role: moving people from "do the analysis, write the action" to "review and approve," and eventually to approving 100 at a time in bulk Big thanks to Hongxia, Hugh, Nicole, and Jon! Event three is in the works, stay tuned!