Notes from Pratik Patel’s talk, “Building a Mini-Software Factory using Pi.dev and Local LLMs” (September 14, 2026)

On Monday, September 14, Pratik Patel gave his talk, Building a Mini-Software Factory using Pi.dev and Local LLMs, to a full room at the Entrepreneur Collaborative Center in Tampa’s Ybor City neighborhood. Here are my notes from his talk. Blasphemy! The quite-full ECC was about three-quarters software developers, and Pratik had just finished taking a headcount of the Java people, the TypeScripters, the Pythonistas, and of course, the Rustaceans (“most people want to rewrite everything in Rust, and I find it extremely annoying”). That’s when he said what would’ve gotten him tarred, feathered, and run out of a Java meetup if we’d been back in the days of Java SE 18 or 19: “One of the things that you may get from this session is that the programming language doesn’t even really matter anymore.” Of course, his paln was to prove that statement by the end of the night, as well as the conclusion that you should draw if you still plan to remain in software: If you hand the coding off to a…