---
title: "HumanLayer"
category: "companies"
aliases: ["HumanLayer"]
website: "https://www.humanlayer.com/"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule", "Public company site", "Automated company profile fetch"]
---
# HumanLayer

## Overview
HumanLayer is represented at AI Engineer World's Fair 2026. Its public site describes it this way: An AI IDE, collaboration platform, and building blocks for your software factory. Ship 2-3x faster across the entire SDLC while maintaining rigorous standards for code quality and architecture.

## Background
The official speaker roster connects HumanLayer to Dex Horthy, Kyle Mistele. The public company site was discovered by domain-guess and fetched for homepage metadata.

## Conference Relevance
HumanLayer matters to this wiki through 2 official speaker(s) and 2 scheduled session(s), including: Loop Engineering from first principles; Harness Engineering is not Enough: Why Software Factories Fail.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-kyle-mistele-loop-engineering-from-first-principles]] - Loop Engineering from first principles (2026-06-29, 3:45pm-4:05pm)
- [[2026-06-29-dex-horthy-harness-engineering-is-not-enough-why-software-factories-fail]] - Harness Engineering is not Enough: Why Software Factories Fail (2026-06-29, 4:30pm-4:50pm)

## Connections
- [[dex-horthy]] - Co-Founder
- [[kyle-mistele]] - CTO

## Sources
- [HumanLayer - Token Smarter, not Harder](https://www.humanlayer.com/)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this organization appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-kyle-mistele-loop-engineering-from-first-principles|Loop Engineering from first principles]]
- [[2026-06-29-dex-horthy-harness-engineering-is-not-enough-why-software-factories-fail|Harness Engineering is not Enough: Why Software Factories Fail]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-rmvDxxNubIg` — 5 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-rmvDxxNubIg`: code, tasks, vibes, allowed, task, complexity, high, complex.
- Evidence links for `youtube-rmvDxxNubIg`: [[youtube-rmvDxxNubIg]], [[youtube-rmvDxxNubIg-slides]], [[youtube-rmvDxxNubIg-dense-slides]], [[youtube-rmvDxxNubIg-reconstructed-slides]]

## Notes
- Automated company profile fetch status: fetched.

## Evidence Boundary
Official roster and schedule facts are treated as canonical for conference participation. Public company sites, documentation, and professional profiles are supporting context used to explain what the organization does and why it is relevant.