Am I holding this right? • Daniel Terhorst-North • GOTO Copenhagen 2026

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2026. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph Join us at GOTO Copenhagen 2027, October 4–8. https://gotocph.com/2027?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=cph26-talks Daniel Terhorst-North - Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates @daniel-terhorst-north RESOURCES https://www.linkedin.com/in/tastapod/ https://dannorth.net/blog/ https://github.com/tastapod https://mastodon.social/@tastapod@mastodon.social https://bsky.app/profile/tastapod.com https://gotopia.tech/experts/39/daniel-terhorst-north ABSTRACT Oh great, another session about AI. Your social media feeds are already flooded with agentic this and spec-driven that; one-shot rewrites and everyone-is-a-programmer-now. I am not using genAI to go faster but to go broader. It lets me offload (significant) side concerns in areas where I am competent but have no wish to become proficient; the time-sink supporting work that I would either hack together badly myself or side-step altogether. I want to share some models and metaphors that are helping me make sense of this new world: why Ward Cunningham hates printers; how riding a fixie isn’t really cycling; why I'm treating Claude as a fantastic researcher and a terrible programmer; how test-first is the new TDD. I am calling this adjacent engineering. Sometimes these side quests become significant enough to spin off into their own entire product, which I call adjacent discovery. My goal is to give you a more nuanced take on generative AI, to help you cut through all the noise and get actual work done. TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 00:34 Let Us Start 03:55 My Experience With LLMs 07;16 Lets See What This Puppy can do - Fits the first to fifth 12:18 My Training Materiale - Theories of constraint 14:46 Claude I Need a Plan! - Feeding Claude my Material 16:43 Meet The Tools - The tools i buildt 18:56 Seing a Demo - Presenting what i made with Claude 20:56 Notes From The Field - What have i observed 36:00 Wrapping Up 40:33 Things You WILL Forget Even Though I Told You Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2026/sessions/4154 https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con #GOTOcph #GOTO #[topic] #[topic] #[SpeakerName] HEAR TALKS LIKE THIS LIVE GOTO Copenhagen 2027, October 4–8. Five days of talks, masterclasses and the people behind the tools you use. Tickets: https://gotocph.com/20