Dexter Horthy

Every AI lab is building full stack cloud agents. Every enterprise is building their own software factory. We've worked with a lot of teams adopting all flavors in every combination. In this talk we'll distill out the core principles and design patterns we've seen across factories, and make a case for why the AI-native forge will be composable and built on open primitives.

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.

Hi, I'm Dex. I've been hacking on AI agents for a while. I've tried every agent framework out there, from the plug-and-play crew/langchains to the "minimalist" smolagents of the world to the "production grade" langraph, griptape, etc. I've talked to a lot of really strong founders who are all building really impressive things with AI. Most of them are rolling the stack themselves.