
Structured as a timed competition rather than a talk, which turns out to be its value: four engineers build the same collaborative markdown editor in parallel using four different agent surfaces, and their divergent methods are visible rather than described. Kirschner opens with a research agent surveying existing products, then three parallel design explorations, before writing any code. Reddington splits roles across models, using one as planner and another as implementer. Kasper runs a single high-reasoning pass from a generated specification file, then switches models when the first one's interface work degrades. Running underneath is Dodds coaching the host through the same problem, and his method is the most transferable: he does not write plans, he holds a conversation, deliberately asking questions whose answers he already knows so the agent accumulates the architectural context before being told to proceed. The safety framing is worth noting too — they run in a hosted development container specifically so the agent can be given blanket permission without exposing local credentials.
