SEA Open Discussion Series🔗︎

Beginning in 2023, the SEA has held regular (roughly every 1-2 months) open discussion events. Each event focuses on a particular topic of interest to the SEA community, with the goal of sharing knowledge, creating collaborations, breaking down silos, and building a community of practice.

These events are typically moderated by two individuals from the community. Moderators need not be Committee members - anyone can volunteer! If you would like to host an Open Discussion event for your particular topic of interest, please reach out to the SEA Steering Committee.

Upcoming Discussion🔗︎

Subject: Confessions of a Vibe Coder
Time: 10 AM MT on March 11^th, 2026
Presenter: Ben Kirk

The UCAR SEA will host an open discussion in which we take an informal look at the potential and pitfalls of using LLMs as code contributors and collaborators. Ben Kirk, from NSF NCAR’s Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) will facilitate the discussion. Over the past few months, Ben has used the Claude LLM to tackle an unexpected challenge: modernizing the Systems Accounting Manager - the backbone of NSF NCAR’s HPC allocation accounting - becoming a relative subject matter expert in database programming in the process. Ben will describe his experiences using Claude and other LLMs, and then open up the floor to discussion. We hope you’ll join us and bring your own LLM coding anecdotes, observations, and questions.

To register for this open discussion and receive virtual meeting information, please fill out this form before the event.

Past Discussions🔗︎