Talk
Spec as Infrastructure
Prompting and AGENTS.md don’t scale as agentic systems grow in complexity. We need a shared layer agents can anchor to and validate against. I’ll introduce a new research system I’m developing that makes entities, interactions, constraints, and tests globally referenceable. From there, we’ll imagine AGI has already happened and examine how engineering shifts when specs guide autonomous systems.
About
Python core developer since 2013: added async/await, async generators, context variables, exception groups, and many other improvements, author of many PEPs. Created uvloop & asyncpg, two very popular and wide-spread Python libraries. Founded Gel, a graph-relational database company. Currently Director of Engineering at Vercel, building the best Python cloud.