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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 9, 2026 • Session details

Developers become Orchestrators: From Human-in-the-Loop to Spec-in-the-Loop

Bastian Heilemann, Stefan Bley

Treating AI as a basic copilot creates a cognitive bottleneck. Stop hand-holding algorithms. Transition to spec-in-the-loop workflows where developers orchestrate architecture and agents execute code.

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