---
title: "Dex Horthy"
category: "people"
role: "Co-Founder"
company: "HumanLayer"
linkedin: "https://linkedin.com/in/dexterihorthy"
twitter: "https://x.com/dexhorthy"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Dex Horthy

## Profile
Co-Founder at [[humanlayer|HumanLayer]].

- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/dexterihorthy)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/dexhorthy)

## Biography
CEO and Co-Founder at [[humanlayer|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.

## Conference Sessions
- [[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)

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

### Linked Sessions
- [[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]]