Baruch Sadogursky and Leonid Igolnik’s Arc of AI presentation: “Back to the Future of Software: How to Survive the AI Apocalypse with Tests, Prompts, and Specs”

For me, Arc of AI wrapped up with my attending Baruch Sadogursky and Leonid Igolnik’s madcap presentation, Back to the Future of Software: How to Survive the AI Apocalypse with Tests, Prompts, and Specs… and unexpectedly playing the accordion! Baruch does DevRel at Tessl, the AI agent enablement platform, where his full-time job is thinking about context engineering and how agents actually write code. Leonid’s a former Tucows coworker, and now a recovering CTO who advises a range of tech companies on what he calls with a grin that was half joke and half resigned sigh “how to adopt this new and exciting age of never looking at the code that you shipped to production and still deliver predictable results.” There are your typical “last slot of the last day of the conference” talks. And then there are ones like this one, where two grown men show up dressed as Doc Brown and Marty McFly, pull in Yours Truly to improvise a song mid-talk, and spend forty-five minutes arguing that the future…