Kelvin French-Owen

The talk explores why coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex feel transformative, focusing on context management, terminal-based workflows, and the trust needed to delegate work. Kelvin French-Owen shares lessons from building Codex: keep agent context relevant, provide ways to check results, and understand how a codebase’s structure shapes what agents produce. The speakers discuss how coding agents may change software teams, product design, and the skills engineers need, while noting limits around long-context tasks, verification, and security. They also consider how open source, developer tools, and products such as Segment may evolve as agents make implementation cheaper.