Slides: Respect The Process - Andrew Dumit, Watershed Technology Inc.
Source Video
Respect The Process - Andrew Dumit, Watershed Technology Inc.
Relationship To World's Fair 2026
These slides are extracted from a public AI Engineer YouTube video connected to World's Fair 2026. Speaker-matched clips are supporting context unless later confirmed as exact session recordings; official livestream recordings are day-level/event-level source material.
Related Scheduled Sessions
- No individual scheduled session mapping has been assigned yet; treat this as an event livestream deck.
Extracted Slides
- Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
- AI slide classifier:
title_cardconfidence0.99 - Text source: agent_vision.
Slide text:
Respect the Process
Trustworthy coding agents in a domain full of expert judgement calls
- Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
- AI slide classifier:
content_slideconfidence0.98 - Text source: agent_vision.
Slide text:
Sustainability is filled with judgement calls
Questions like:
- What are the emissions attributable to 1 bottle of wine?
- Which method should be used to allocate the emissions to various co-products?
- Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
- AI slide classifier:
content_slideconfidence0.98 - Text source: none.
- OCR decision: ready — Small multi-region text with citation and metric is better suited for OCR than manual transcription in triage.
- Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
- AI slide classifier:
content_slideconfidence0.98 - Text source: none.
- OCR decision: ready — Diagram slide with many small labels and node cards is OCR-suitable.
- Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
- AI slide classifier:
content_slideconfidence0.98 - Text source: none.
- OCR decision: ready — Diagram slide with repeated node cards and small labels is OCR-suitable.
- Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
- AI slide classifier:
content_slideconfidence0.98 - Text source: none.
- OCR decision: ready — Dense repeated diagram nodes and small labels are OCR-suitable.
- Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
- AI slide classifier:
content_slideconfidence0.97 - Text source: agent_vision.
Slide text:
So, we naturally swapped in a coding agent
Gives the agent the ability to delight
The agent can find clever ways to solve underspecified problems, create fancy visualizations, and answer related questions
- Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
- AI slide classifier:
content_slideconfidence0.98 - Text source: none.
- OCR decision: ready — Three-column text slide is OCR-suitable and should be handled by OCR rather than manual transcription in triage.
- Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
- AI slide classifier:
content_slideconfidence0.99 - Text source: agent_vision.
Slide text:
But, unconstrained code is scary
The agent will find “creative” ways to solve every problem
The agent can gaslight users saying it made edits
Manual review of code is not in our users’ wheelhouse
- Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
- AI slide classifier:
content_slideconfidence0.97 - Text source: agent_vision.
- OCR decision: ready — Dense multi-column slide with chart and several small quotes.
Slide text:
The process ≠ answer story is not new
- Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
- AI slide classifier:
content_slideconfidence0.98 - Text source: agent_vision.
- OCR decision: ready — Code-heavy slide with bullets and a large code sample.
Slide text:
Our SDK as the only door
- Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
- AI slide classifier:
content_slideconfidence0.98 - Text source: agent_vision.
- OCR decision: ready — Text plus structured flow diagram and step boxes are OCR-suitable.
Slide text:
Deterministic execution to guarantee process
- Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
- AI slide classifier:
content_slideconfidence0.96 - Text source: agent_vision.
- OCR decision: ready — Mostly the same structured slide with an overlaid report and small labels.
Slide text:
Deterministic execution to guarantee process
- Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
- AI slide classifier:
content_slideconfidence0.95 - Text source: agent_vision.
- OCR decision: ready — Structured process slide with chart labels and small diagram text.
Slide text:
Deterministic execution to guarantee process
- Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
- AI slide classifier:
content_slideconfidence0.98 - Text source: agent_vision.
Slide text:
Hillclimbing within this harness
All the typical approaches were still effective
Prompt improvements
Few-shot examples
Making tools better fit-for-use
Breaking the task down
Teaching the agent some expert judgement
43% -> 92%
Accuracy improvement on internal evals
- Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
- AI slide classifier:
content_slideconfidence0.97 - Text source: agent_vision.
Slide text:
In a domain full of judgement calls, respect the process
User request
agent writes free code
typed SDK + lint
deterministic execution
commit as typed objects
valid · traceable · replayable
reject → retry
Classification audit: raw/sources/slide-ai-classification/slides/CLttOU7n6sI/audit.json
Slide-Derived Subjects To Review
Subject extraction uses video title, related session titles/descriptions, transcript context, and OCR text when available. OCR is best-effort and should be reviewed against the embedded slide images.