Michael Zhang

Michael Zhang

Principal ML Engineer

MYOB

From Zero to Production: How 15 Engineers Shipped a Production LLM Product with AI Coding Tools

Wednesday, 3 June · 1:50 PM · Software Engineering track

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From Zero to Production: How 15 Engineers Shipped a Production LLM Product with AI Coding Tools

How a team of fewer than 15 engineers at MYOB took an AI-powered chat experience from zero to production, embedded directly inside the product serving real small business owners and accountants. Leaning heavily into AI-assisted coding throughout the entire development lifecycle, using tools like Cursor and Claude Code as genuine force multipliers. Covers the AI Engineering challenges of productionising LLM features at scale — evaluation, guardrails, latency, hallucination management — and what it actually looks like when a small team uses AI coding tools to ship faster than anyone expected.

Michael Zhang

Michael Zhang is the Principal MLE at MYOB. Over the past six months, his team of fewer than 15 engineers took an AI-powered chat experience from zero to production, embedded directly inside the MYOB product, serving real small business owners and accountants every day.