Beyond Prompting

AI Coding Summit NYC · 2026 GitNation • Talk by Paul Byrne

Once you can generate the app faster than you can agree on what it is, product and spec become the bottleneck.

This page includes the three things promised at the end of the talk: the interactive slides, the anonymized demo pack used live on stage, and a free copy of Paul’s book, Adapt or Die.

Paul Byrne — President & Founder, Razoyo · Agentic Software Development · Dallas · Author, Adapt or Die | The Real AI Playbook

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The Three Promised Resources

The fastest wins in agentic software come from moving definition to the front of the line. Start with contradictions, not code. Then constrain with artifacts.

The Slides

Download the slide deck as a PDF. Highlights include: Herbie from The Goal, the BMAD shift (product + spec first), Malte Olm’s table-stakes lesson, and the Monarch migration thesis.

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The Demo Pack (StayLocal)

The anonymized inputs used on stage: founder email, RFP v3, discovery notes, internal Slack thread — plus the 9 contradictions BMAD surfaced. No private mappings included.

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