Conference talks

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Sep 23, 2026Plano Prompt Engineers, Plano, TX45 min · 36 slides

From Intent to Pull Request: Building a Remote Engineering Harness

A stakeholder describes a change in plain language. An agent asks the follow-up questions, implements it on a remote container, runs the checks, records a short video of the behavior, and opens a draft pull request. The stakeholder accepts the behavior; an engineer reviews the code and owns the merge.

AI agentsRemote executionCode reviewDeveloper tooling

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Sep 16-17, 2026Dreamforce 2026, San Francisco, CA40 min · panel

How Salesforce Makes Everyone a Builder With AIforce

A panel on how Salesforce brought its own tools into Slack and supercharged them with Claudeforce, turning every employee into a builder. Covers Slackbot for task automation, Signals for turning scattered data into action, cutting build cycles from weeks to hours, and a $160M pipeline lift in three months.

AI agentsEnterprise AIDeveloper toolingSlack

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Aug 22, 2026ACM Dallas, Dallas, TX25 min · 28 slides

Harness Engineering: How Reliable AI Agents Actually Get Built

The model is the engine; the harness is the car. Why most agent pilots stall on reliability rather than capability, and the engineering that closes the gap: tools and permissions, verification loops, guardrails, evals, and human handoff.

AI agentsReliabilityEvalsDeveloper tooling

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