Official Session Summary
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A huge portion of the industry spent the last two years building the wrong agents. We got chains, workflows, better chatbots. A hundred VC-funded frameworks gave us the illusion of agency wrapped in brittle control structures and old school determinism. Meanwhile, the teams actually winning kept arriving at the same uncomfortable answer: give the agent a code environment, and everything else solves itself. Coding agents aren't a developer tool. They never were. Code is the universal execution harness, it composes, it calls, it verifies, it spawns other agents, it runs at 3am without asking for clarification. No other AI modality does all of that. Not chatbots. Not RAG. Not your carefully orchestrated "multi-agent" workflow (which is really RPA) that demos beautifully and falls apart in week two. In this talk we'll trace the arc from deterministic pipelines to genuine agency, name the wrong turns, and make a claim that will make some people in this room uncomfortable: This is not a developer skill anymore. It's a leadership primitive.
Speaker Background
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Founder of Agentuity, focused on agent-native product design and the argument that coding environments are becoming the universal runtime for useful agents.
Why This Slot Matters
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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.