Dex Horthy

Co-Founder, HumanLayer

Speaking in 1 session at AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 — unofficial import demo

Bio

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.

Sessions

Harness Engineering is not Enough: Why Software Factories FailTuesday, June 30 · 4:30 PM – 4:50 PM · Main StageSoftware Factories

For developers: this programme is open data — JSON, iCal, schedule XML and an MCP endpoint.Show endpoints

JSONEvery published session and speaker, in one request./aie-worldsfair-2026-import/feed.json
iCalSubscribe in Google, Apple or Outlook Calendar./aie-worldsfair-2026-import/feed.ics
Schedule XMLfrab / pentabarf — the format conference apps import./aie-worldsfair-2026-import/feed.xml
MCP + RESTPoint Claude at the programme. OpenAPI 3.1 included./agents

No key, no signup, CORS open. Everything here is generated from the same data the organisers edit.