Official Session Summary
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No Vibes Allowed is the second most-watched talk of the 2025 AI engineer code summit, and in the top five most-watched AI Engineer talks of all time. From it, you know I'm a big fan of Research / Plan / Implement. For the last 6 months, we've been working with large orgs (hundreds or thousands of engineers) to adopt advanced context engineering techniques for coding agents. We learned a ton of things we got wrong, and are here to share some lessons trying to scale these techniques to large teams working on a broad variety of complex codebases with hundreds of repos spanning platform, product, DevOps, and more. We'll talk about the shortcomings of previous approaches, and how we're now breaking down research and planning into more discrete steps, using control flow instead of prompting for managing workflows, and unique perspectives on "what is PR slop, where does it come from, and how to combat it", and a whole lot more.
Speaker Background
Quick context on the person or people on stage.
CEO and co-founder of HumanLayer, focused on production agent workflows, human-in-the-loop systems, and making AI actions accountable inside real organizations.
Why This Slot Matters
A compact framing layer for navigating the conference.
This is one of the more substantive abstract-backed sessions on the schedule; worth opening when you need enough context to decide whether to stay in the room.