What emerged was compound engineering: a philosophy where every unit of work makes the next one easier, not harder. I open-sourced the system as a Claude Code plugin, and it quietly spread to tens of thousands of developers. But it's still how I build every day.In this keynote, I'll share the journey from personal productivity hack to a movement — what I learned about the relationship between humans and AI when you stop treating code as the artifact and start treating the system as the product. And I'll share where I think this is all heading: a future where the engineer's job isn't to write code, but to teach systems that write it better each time.
