Designing for the Agent Economy & From Prompt to Loop

A double-header evening with two talks.

Designing for the Agent Economy
What happens when software starts hiring software? This talk explores how AI infrastructure is reshaping development, how autonomous agents coordinate and transact with each other to form a new economy, and what that means for agent capabilities, the assumptions it breaks in traditional software design, and the opportunities it opens up.

Charlie Allen
Charlie has an unconventional background, moving from legal training into tech, teaching English in Korea, and co-founding a chai business before joining Amazon Alexa's AI organisation, where he deployed a production NER model. He was named the British Computer Society's Digital Degree Apprentice of the Year, later led infrastructure recovery at Darktrace, and went solo in 2026 to build agentic AI systems full-time from Norwich.

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From Prompt to Loop
A practical guide to AI agent development, walking through four evolutionary stages: prompt engineering, context engineering, harness engineering, and loop engineering. Includes concrete examples using Claude Code and agent verification techniques.

Nishant Kumar
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