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Harness Engineering is not Enough: Why Software Factories Fail
Dex Horthy
- When
- Tuesday, June 304:30 PM – 4:50 PM · 20 min
- Where
- Main StageSan Francisco, CA · imported from ai.engineer's public schedule feed
Speaker
Dex Horthy
Co-Founder, HumanLayer
CEO and Co-Founder at HumanLayer, helping teams solve hard problems in complex codebases without slop. Dex has been building software factories his entire career. Coined the term "context engineering", created the Research/Plan/Implement framework for coding agents, wrote code for Nasa lunar rovers in high school. Enjoyer of tacos and burpees, not necessarily in that order.
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