---
title: "We're the bottleneck, but we don't have to be"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-06-29"
time: "2:25pm-2:45pm"
track: "Software Factories"
room: "Main Stage"
speakers: ["Ido Salomon"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: "Software Factories"
scheduleRoom: "Main Stage"
scheduleLabels: ["Software Factories", "Main Stage", "session", "confirmed"]
---
# We're the bottleneck, but we don't have to be

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 2:25pm-2:45pm
- Track/room: Software Factories · Main Stage
- Speaker(s): Ido Salomon
- Session type/status: session · confirmed

- Track: Software Factories
- Room: Main Stage
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
As agents improve at doing real work, humans become the real bottleneck. Luckily, the skills we need to work with agents aren’t entirely new, they've just been hiding in unexpected places. Drawing lessons from AgentCraft’s Warcraft-inspired UI for coordinating multiple agents, this talk explores how gamification can raise the ceiling for sophisticated AI orchestration while lowering the floor for everyday developers. Ido will show how visual state, spatial metaphors, and autonomy can make multi-agent systems more approachable, inspectable, and fun to use.

## Media Evidence
[AgentCraft: Putting the Orc in Orchestration — Ido Salomon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR64LOqBBCU) (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).

- Source video: `youtube-kR64LOqBBCU`
- Slide deck: [[youtube-kR64LOqBBCU-reconstructed-slides|Reconstructed Slides: AgentCraft: Putting the Orc in Orchestration — Ido Salomon]] — 12 visible slide image(s); 12 HTML recreation(s).
![[assets/reconstructed-slides/kR64LOqBBCU/slide-002.jpg]]
![[assets/reconstructed-slides/kR64LOqBBCU/slide-003.jpg]]
![[assets/reconstructed-slides/kR64LOqBBCU/slide-004.jpg]]
- Additional slide evidence: [[youtube-kR64LOqBBCU-slides|Slides: AgentCraft: Putting the Orc in Orchestration — Ido Salomon]]
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-kR64LOqBBCU`: putting, orchestration, bottleneck, skills, along, channels, open.

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph is generated from currently linked source material: official schedule text, related video pages, cached transcripts, visible slide text, dense/reconstructed slide pages, and AI slide-classification audits.

### Media Signals
- `youtube-kR64LOqBBCU` — 4 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-kR64LOqBBCU`: putting, orchestration, bottleneck, skills, along, channels, open.
- Evidence links for `youtube-kR64LOqBBCU`: [[youtube-kR64LOqBBCU]], [[youtube-kR64LOqBBCU-slides]], [[youtube-kR64LOqBBCU-reconstructed-slides]]

### Agent Reading Notes
Use these signals to refine the synopsis, topic links, people/company context, and method notes. If a source is a related external video rather than an exact official recording, keep it framed as supporting evidence.

## Transcript Status
Related video transcript availability: English auto-captions. Treat this as supporting context, not a recording of this exact scheduled session unless later confirmed. Not fetched yet.

## People
- [[ido-salomon]]

## Supporting Slides
- [[youtube-kR64LOqBBCU-slides]] — extracted from the related public AI Engineer video.

## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
The session explains MCP Apps as a way to add interactive UI to MCP-based workflows. It treats the MCP host as the place where tool data, model reasoning, and human controls meet.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[ido-salomon|Ido Salomon]] — Co-Creator at MCP Apps.

### Topics Covered
- [[agent-security]]
- [[coding-agents]]
- [[mcp]]
- [[mcp-apps]]

### Derived Links And Source Material
- [[youtube-kR64LOqBBCU]] — related YouTube source page.
- [[youtube-kR64LOqBBCU-slides]] — slide evidence.
- [[youtube-kR64LOqBBCU-reconstructed-slides]] — slide evidence.

### Novel Concepts / Clever Methods
- [[mcp-app-runtime|MCP Apps As Agentic App Runtime]] — MCP Apps treats interactive UI returned from MCP servers as a runtime layer for agent-facing software.

### Evidence Boundary
This synthesis is based on the official schedule and linked source pages. It should be revisited when exact session recordings or transcript-backed secondary sources are available.