Dex Horthy

Co-Founder · HumanLayer

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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 (2)

Day 412:30pm-1:30pmMain Stage

The Great Loops Debate

Day 24:30pm-4:50pmMain Stage

Harness Engineering is not Enough: Why Software Factories Fail

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Dex Horthy created the viral '12 Factor Agents' framework (23.6k GitHub stars) and is a leading proponent of the Research-Plan-Implement methodology for AI coding agents, distilling lessons from conversations with roughly 100 founders and engineers building agents in production; his work delivers concrete, practitioner-tested patterns for getting AI coding agents to work on complex, real-world codebases rather than greenfield demos.