Beyond the Prompt: "Goodbye slop; welcome determinism" David Khourshid

This talk was a part of Beyond the Prompt conference, hosted by ‪@agGrid‬ and ‪@Bryntum‬ in London in 2026. 🔥 Stay tuned for the next events: AG Grid on X: https://x.com/ag_grid/ AG Grid on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ag-grid.bsky... AG Grid on LinkedIn:   / ag-grid   Bryntum on X: https://x.com/bryntum/ Bryntum on LinkedIn:   / bryntum-ab   ------------------------------------------------------------------ 🔷 Vibe coding feels productive until you have to maintain it. Behind the agent "thinking..." you ignore and the code you never opened lies a growing pile of wasted tokens, nondeterministic behavior, and compounding errors hiding in plain sight. This talk pushes back on the status quo: elaborate agent architectures, "prompting astrology", overnight automation loops burning through context windows and credit cards. Come for the critique, leave with a framework for using AI to build software you actually understand. 🔷 David Khourshid is the founder of Stately.ai and creator of XState, the most popular open-source state machine & statecharts library. He's a longtime advocate for event-driven modeling and visual diagramming as the foundation for reliable UIs and, increasingly, AI agents. When he's not at a computer keyboard, he's at a piano keyboard. ➡️ Follow him on X: https://x.com/DavidKPiano ------------------------------------------------------------------ AG Grid brings you the building blocks for data applications: the grid that handles your data, the charts that visualise it, and the dashboard layer that puts it all in front of your users. Available in Community and Enterprise versions. 🔗 https://www.ag-grid.com/ #javascript #aiengineering #webdevelopment #AGGrid #aidevelopment