The Prompt is the Platform
summary
Claim: the prompt is the platform and the specification becomes the product. Agents initially fail jumping from abstract spec to a Postgres Rust server because of concurrency and network edge cases; after inserting a concrete specification and a deterministic simulation (Python simulator of NATS.io primitives with versioned key‑value, stale reads, optimistic writes) the agent generates a provably correct design, fuzz‑tests a proof‑of‑concept, and then derives production implementations that work on real infra.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Coding agents and Resonate
- 1:52Implementation to specification
- 3:58Abstract to concrete specs
- 6:48Agents simulate systems
- 8:35Minimalism as design goal
- 11:48Stale reads in distributed systems
- 13:38Simulation for agent debugging
- 16:10Agents drive design
- 17:16Conclusion and Q&A
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