--- schema: 1 type: video title: >- You Can't Prompt the Room: The Last Skill AI Won't Replace - Balázs Horváth, VisualLabs description: >- Writing code is no longer the bottleneck. With AI generating specifications, tests, and entire implementations on demand, the expensive part of the software development lifecycle has shifted upstream to the people work. Getting the right stakeholders into the room, eliciting the real requirements, and figuring out what is actually worth building. This talk draws on a VisualLabs internal hackathon where 21 agent ideas were generated and 17 were abandoned, not because of technology limitations, but because they lacked data access, a clear business owner, or any measurable value. The 4 that survived are running in production today. The lesson: AI is optimised to produce the most common answer. Getting from a faster horse to a car requires a human who can read the room, map the process, and name the problem precisely before a single prompt is written. The session covers three practical tools for doing exactly that: story mapping for capturing process backbone and user stories at the right altitude; the 4-question value framework (whose problem, what winning looks like, what would cause refusal, what decision it changes); and the VAD thinking path (Value to Architecture to Design) as the discipline that separates production agents from demo agents. Attendees leave with a concrete shift in how they measure delivery: fewer features shipped, more features used more than twice. Speakers: - Balázs Horváth (VisualLabs): Balazs Horvath is the founder of VisualLabs, a Budapest-based premium Microsoft Partner, who has spent 13 years bridging business and technology across US and UK ERP and CRM programmes, and now helps enterprise teams ship production AI agents by rebuilding the requirements and story-mapping skills that the AI coding boom has made more important than ever. 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With AI generating specifications, tests, and entire implementations on demand, the expensive part of the software development lifecycle has shifted upstream to the people work. Getting the right stakeholders into the room, eliciting the real requirements, and figuring out what is actually worth building. This talk draws on a VisualLabs internal hackathon where 21 agent ideas were generated and 17 were abandoned, not because of technology limitations, but because they lacked data access, a clear business owner, or any measurable value. The 4 that survived are running in production today. The lesson: AI is optimised to produce the most common answer. Getting from a faster horse to a car requires a human who can read the room, map the process, and name the problem precisely before a single prompt is written. The session covers three practical tools for doing exactly that: story mapping for capturing process backbone and user stories at the right altitude; the 4-question value framework (whose problem, what winning looks like, what would cause refusal, what decision it changes); and the VAD thinking path (Value to Architecture to Design) as the discipline that separates production agents from demo agents. Attendees leave with a concrete shift in how they measure delivery: fewer features shipped, more features used more than twice. Speakers: - Balázs Horváth (VisualLabs): Balazs Horvath is the founder of VisualLabs, a Budapest-based premium Microsoft Partner, who has spent 13 years bridging business and technology across US and UK ERP and CRM programmes, and now helps enterprise teams ship production AI agents by rebuilding the requirements and story-mapping skills that the AI coding boom has made more important than ever. 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