SpeakingJun 18 · San Francisco · Frontier Cohort 8 opening talk
What we learned rebuilding software delivery around autonomous agents
David Boskovic · CEO, Obvious
Recorded live at Frontier Cohort 8 in San Francisco. David shows how his team of 10 engineers went from about 300 PRs a week to over 5,300 a month, and what it took to get there.
The change was operational. Engineers had stopped writing code and started shuttling work between AI agents. Obvious rebuilt how software gets made: 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."
