Add BSOTA #2: AI Orchestration with Conductor (Mar 17)

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Summary

• Full event recap, event card, and 7 technique guides from BSOTA Add session notes: hooks, global skills, Cursor data mining (Kyle) #2 (March 17, 2026)
• Featured presenter: Daniel (Apache Airflow PMC chair, AI consultant) — LunchTable.ai case study + live Conductor demo
• ~17 attendees, 2h10m session at The Commons

What's Included

Event documentation:

• events/2026-03-17/event-card.md — Event metadata, agenda, links
• events/2026-03-17/recap.md — Full event recap compiled from the transcript

7 technique guides:

1. Parallel Agents with Conductor — Running 3–5 Claude Code agents simultaneously on isolated branches
2. Test Harnesses as AI Bumpers — Writing tests that prevent AI agents from drifting off-intent
3. Instant Local Dev — Docker Compose + Tilt for 30-second local environments
4. Voice-to-Text Workflow — Replacing typed prompts with voice dictation
5. Opus-to-Sonnet CLAUDE.md — Using Opus to write instructions that make Sonnet perform at higher quality
6. Task Decomposition for Parallel Agents — Breaking work into structurally independent tickets
7. Mental Health for AI Practitioners — Avoiding burnout when running multiple agents

README update:

• Repo structure section updated to show both events

Source

Content extracted from the full 2h10m Circleback transcript.

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