--- schema: 1 type: video title: 'The Prompt is the Platform - Dominik Tornow, Resonate HQ' description: >- Coding agents challenge long-standing software engineering practices. Instead of using general-purpose libraries, frameworks, or platforms, agents synthesize bespoke systems on demand. In this talk, I'll show where agents fail, where agents succeed, and the workflow for making the specification the product and the prompt the platform. Speakers: - Dominik Tornow (Resonate HQ, Inc): Dominik Tornow is the founder and CEO of Resonate and the author of Think Distributed Systems. He has spent more than 20 years designing and building distributed systems and now focuses on agentic engineering, formal modeling, and formal verification. 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Instead of using general-purpose libraries, frameworks, or platforms, agents synthesize bespoke systems on demand. In this talk, I'll show where agents fail, where agents succeed, and the workflow for making the specification the product and the prompt the platform. Speakers: - Dominik Tornow (Resonate HQ, Inc): Dominik Tornow is the founder and CEO of Resonate and the author of Think Distributed Systems. He has spent more than 20 years designing and building distributed systems and now focuses on agentic engineering, formal modeling, and formal verification. X/Twitter: https://x.com/DominikTornow LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dtornow/ GitHub: https://github.com/dtornow Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/the-prompt-is-the-platform-dominik-tornow-resonate-05ca9c6bd311 ยท Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks --- #### Chunk 0: Document excerpt (0:02 to 1:33) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 1: Document excerpt (1:33 to 3:36) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 2: Document excerpt (3:36 to 5:20) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 3: Document excerpt (5:20 to 6:54) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 4: Document excerpt (6:54 to 8:35) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 5: Document excerpt (8:35 to 10:06) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 6: Document excerpt (10:06 to 11:57) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 7: Document excerpt (11:57 to 13:53) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 8: Document excerpt (13:53 to 16:04) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 9: Document excerpt (16:04 to 17:33) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text.