SpeakingJun 18 · San Francisco · Frontier Cohort 8 session
Learn Spec Design
David Boskovic · CEO, Obvious
Recorded live at Frontier Cohort 8 in San Francisco. In this session on spec design, David shows how his team of 10 engineers went from about 300 PRs a week to over 5,300 a month.
Engineers had stopped writing code and started shuttling work between AI agents. The fix was agents orchestrating agents, closed-loop automation, and a culture where the spec matters more than the syntax.
In this talk
Why velocity stalled even with Claude and Cursor
How Obvious turned its own product into an engineering orchestrator
Planning by token budget instead of headcount
Why every software company becomes a software factory
What changes when inference hits 15,000 tokens per second
"The winners will be the ones best at generating great software at any given moment — not having a previously built, static piece of software that was good at one point in time."
