Prototyping as Leadership: How a CTO Ships with AI Agents

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I am a CTO and co-founder with a toddler, 15+ recurring meetings a week, 7 direct reports, and right

now—7 open pull requests across two repos. Most engineering leaders eventually hit a wall where this

kind of calendar tetris forces them to stop shipping code and start communicating solely through

roadmaps. But what if AI agents didn't just act as coding assistants, but fundamentally restructured

how executives use fragmented time to prototype the future? In this talk, I will share the exact

multi-model workflows I use to plan with one model, implement with another, and build asynchronous

play-and-feedback loops that fit perfectly between meetings. You will learn how to navigate code

reviews for agent-assisted executive PRs, and leverage AI to shift your leadership style from

telling your team what to build to showing them functional prototypes.

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