Hello, I am Whitney. I'm a developer

advocate at Data Dog, but today I'm

playing the part of a developer and I

work at a very important company and

we're we're close to be making the

Magnificent 7, the Magnificent Eight.

And my company uh serves this image of a

rainbow. And when you press the spider

button, it adds a spider. So, if I can

I'm nervous. There we go. So, if you

want to No, I didn't want to view the

page source. I learned this new trick

where you can create a QR code for a

page by right-clicking. So, if you want

to have my company's illustrious uh

Spider Rainbows app, um it will change

throughout the course of this

presentation. Spoiler alert. So, it's

fun to see it on your phone and that

it's a real thing. Um I'll generate this

again later. So, my company, we made

this spiders app and We're getting

complaints from our users that they're

not happy because it's not realistic

because they're just really upset

because spiders don't have teeth and

they're just like, "What the heck?

Spiders don't have teeth. We can't. This

app is unusable. We need to fix this."

So, as a developer, I'm going to do some

work to fix this. And um I'm going to

simulate that work here in my in my

Oh, I have excuse. Yes. Okay. um in my

uh terminal and I'm going to just

I have a a script because no one needs

to actually see me develop anything. So,

I just developed a new feature just like

that. Magical. Okay, but here's the

thing. Now, I need to interact with my

company's platform and follow my

company's policies to get this thing

into production. So, you know how I'm

going to do that? I can't be bothered to

write a commit message anymore because

now I have a new best friend. Sorry,

Victor. And that best friend is

>> Thank you, Claude. [laughter]

Finally.

>> Um,

I want to I'm ner Oh, sorry. So, what

I'm going to do is I'm going to talk to

Cloud Code with an app called Whisper

Flow because I also can't be bothered to

type anymore. So, I'm going to say,

"Hey, Claude Code, I just developed a

new feature. Help me get it into

production." So, let's see what happens

here.

So, the definitely I don't want to write

a commit message. So, we're going to get

a commit message out of this. I'm

eventually going to also run it through

CI/CD. It's going to get reviewed and

then I want to create a PR. I want to

merge that PR. And this is all work

that's unique enough that it can't be

automated,

but that also needs to um but also needs

the developers attention. Um so that so

right now what it's doing, you saw me

clear the context at the beginning. So,

it knows nothing about anything. So,

it's looking at my codebase now to

figure out what changed to figure out

what commit message to write. And so,

we're doing that. Here we go. We're

going to update spider image v1 to v2.

Removing teeth since spiders don't have

teeth or jaws. Spiders only consume

liquids through their mouth straws

[laughter] by injecting digestive

enzymes into prey and slurping up the

resulting soup. [laughter]

>> Sorry.

>> Whomever of you thinks that there is no

value in AI. [laughter]

So yes, I think that's an excellent

commit message. I do want to proceed.

Um, and so now I'm hope now I know that

it needs to because I'm a developer and

I've worked here a long time. I know the

next thing it needs to do is get

approved by my CI/CD pipeline.

So I'm going to wait for it to come to

go do that.

And I don't know if you're picking up

what I'm putting down, but what I'm

trying to show here is that the new

Uhhuh. What's this? Oh, we're going to

create the PR. Of course, we need to do

that first. So, here we go. Spiders

don't have teeth. It slurp [laughter]

through their little mouse. Um,

so yes, we're creating the PR.

Um the point is your developers are not

uh interfacing with with your platform

in the way they used to. As a developer,

I'm doing everything I can do to stay

within here. So, first of all, I just

realized I made a mistake. My company

has um my company has a template I'm

supposed to use for PRs, and I got

distracted and didn't use my company's

template. also is trying to get me to

look at my code review, but I know that

I need to um what about CI uh to I know

that my CI/CD needs to pass. So, I'm

having to babysit that part of it.

>> The whole point so far and we'll get

further is that developers in your

company are or will be very soon using

AI, right? And you're building

platforms, right? And if those platforms

somehow do not are not made in a way

that they can that AI clo code in this

case cursor whatever you're using that

it's capable of interacting and finding

out how to do and what to do and why to

do it if you don't build it that way

your developers will be bypassing you

completely right it will just say I

cannot deal with that stuff

>> so I had you reminded to use a to use

the CI/CD pipeline to check for that

first. And I want to do that in quad

code because it's going to propose a fix

for me and I want I don't want to have

to go fix it somewhere else. But it's

also a dummy and it's trying to change

the test instead of changing the code.

So now I'm going to say uh

>> you're an idiot. Don't change test.

Change the code. [laughter]

>> Missed it here.

>> Idiot. Change the code, not tests.

[laughter]

>> There we go.

When when our tech overlords come, when

our AI overlords come, they're gonna

think I'm the mean one.

>> I always do that to her AI. I don't want

I don't want my AI to go against me.

[laughter] I don't like they can

remember things.

So, we're doing that. And then, um, as

what came up before, we have Code Rabbit

in place next. And so, Code Rabbit is

going to review the PR. And what Code

Rabbit does, so we're committing and

pushing again. Well, code code rabbit is

pretty cool because it's not like just a

llinter. It actually understands how

your code works that you're you're um

you're making a PR around and it and it

understands the wider code base and it's

looking for consistency. It's looking

for um code quality. It's looking at

performance. It's looking at Oh, thank

you. It's looking at um it's also

looking Oh, if your documentation is

different than what the actual code is

doing, it'll let you know about that.

So, it's a really cool AI agent that um

is going to do our next round of

reviewing.

Uh but we let it we just agreed for it

to sleep for 30 whole seconds.

>> There you go. [laughter] Anyway, so

>> the story is that we need to start think

if people are going to start using

agents and they are right whether you

like it or not whether you do it

whatever you think about it people in

your company are doing it officially or

unofficially right if you don't if you

ban it as a company they will there will

be equivalent of shadow infrastructure

and they will they will do it anyway

right so what we need to think about is

how do we enable our work and when I say

our in this context I mean like platform

engineers, builders, whatever we call

ourselves, uh platform engineers. How do

we enable

somebody's else's agents, probably

generic ones, to follow the processes we

created to execute the things that we

already have, right? And how to do the

things that should be done in a correct

way. Like one of the things that

happened right now I mean a few minutes

ago is that Pier Pier was created

without using the format that we defined

in advance right because cloud code in

this case set has no idea that in our

organization we use PR templates right

how could it know it cannot know in

advance and u

>> so code rabbit reviews come in I use the

MCP server to interact with it so an MCP

server is a tool that's in my a that

works with my agent so my agent can

access uh information that's external to

my codebase and it's telling me I have

one problem that I have to extract the

inline styles to CSS class. So I have a

CSS whatever it's it's a it's a nitpick

it's calling it but it's definitely a

way to improve my code and um I'm going

to defer it to later because this is a

live demo and that would be boring to

watch and it has a second nitpick

problem. Let's see what it wants.

Um, it says, [laughter] "While the 12

lines of comments about spider anatomy

are accurate and entertaining, they may

be excessive for production code,

[laughter]

which is fine. We're going to skip that,

too." So, I want to skip our code, like

actually changing and re-reviewing

because this is a demo and that's

boring. But the point is that we have uh

review happening and I still don't have

to leave pod code to get that review and

and work with that review. Um, so it's

thinking, let's see. Yeah. to merge the

PR. So, we're going to merge the PR

and um once we merge the PR, then I have

Argo CD. It's going to set up um it's

going to first it's going to go through

GitHub actions. It's going to build a

new image. It's going to change the

configuration. Argo CD has picked up the

change. And I have a a GitHub web hook

set up to trigger Argo CD to sync. So,

it should all be pretty quick, as quick

as these things can possibly be.

And then meanwhile I'm going to need to

remember as a developer that I want to

clean up my u clean up the branch that

I'm on and make sure I'm back on main.

So I'm going to be working on that.

Well Victor.

>> Okay. Okay.

>> I should entertain a guest, huh? Uh

okay. So

going back to the platform, right? There

are very very complicated things that

you can do that you should be doing. You

should be building your custom agents.

You should maybe uh

do additional learning of models. You

should be setting up vector databases.

You should be setting up graph

databases, filling it with knowledge and

so on and so forth, right? And that's

probably things that many of you will be

doing in the future, maybe next year,

what's not, right? But there are some

things that

you can do extremely easy, extremely

fast. And it will sound silly, but

extreme actually actually it's extremely

extremely useful. You can start creating

your own commands right away. You can

you can create your when I say slash

commands or commands or prompts I mean

basically augmenting the context of the

agents. Meaning that think about how can

I instruct AI uh what are the exact

processes in my company those that I've

been building in a platform already so

far and where are the tools that I can

all execute. You will see in a second uh

very very soon. Are you done?

>> No. Um you will see a few examples of

those. For example, most of the things

that Whitney did so far from a company

perspective is wrong.

>> We have version two of everyone. You can

see it on your own uh

>> you can see it on your own phones now

[laughter] too.

>> So now we have more accurate spiders

that slurp up fly soup through their

little mouth straws. So success. Um uh

so now what Victor's talking about the

platform engineering team has come in

and given me the developer better tools

to work with to be able to uh go through

this entire process. In fact over in my

codebase I still am cleaning up branches

from the going from v1 to v2.

So what I'm going to do as a developer

the first thing I'm going to do is I'm

going to uh very do some very hard work

and develop my next feature.

All right. So now so the problem right

now well the actually it's a good thing.

So at my very very popular and

successful company with spiders and

rainbows um actually our users freaking

love the scary spider. They're like yes

more scarest scariness please. So, we're

going to make the new feature we're

going to develop is just to make the

most horrific spider we could possibly

come up with. So, we're looking for

unholy nightmare fuel is one of our

success metrics.

Um, so I've developed the

>> Oh, source PRD is not found. I don't

know what that means. Um, because I'm

not on the right branch yet because I

haven't closed out the last one because

I'm so excited to move on. So let's um

Victor, why don't you tell them why our

abstract is completely different?

>> I'm supposed to speak only when you make

a mistake. Huh?

>> Yes. [laughter]

That's true. Let's continue your

mistake.

>> Anyways, you what you will you you're

about to see very soon is probably the

first step that I've seen many people

are making. That's to make slash

commands. Right now, it might sound easy

kind of you just need to write a bit of

markdown text in a in a file, but it's

actually more much more complicated than

that because it takes probably quite

some effort, usually a couple of days,

maybe a full week just to nail the exact

process that AI should do kind of what

do we do? What do we do when we start a

new feature? What do we do when we want

to continue working on a feature? What

do we do when we're feature is done? And

that when a feature is done alone is

probably consists of uh 50 different

operations that we need to do like you

need to make sure that you're on a

branch you need to make sure that you

commit with certain message you need to

make sure that you create a pull request

you need to make sure that CI is running

you need to analyze what the results are

you need to code review you need to

bunch of things right

and uh what uh what you usually want to

start with is codifying all that unlike

the previous case where you used I don't

know whatever you're using Java shell

whatever you know right now we're

codifying it in English and [snorts]

that's probably your first month or two

of of the journey right afterwards you

will get more serious and you will start

creating your own agents you will start

creating your your own MCP servers and

so on and so forth we're going to see

that later for now let's let's take a

look at uh one of those commands

>> so I have now developed version three

the horrific nightmare spider. And now

I'm um I'm going to clear co cloud code

because I like when cla code doesn't

know the last thing I did because it's a

good thing because I have this PRD

that's a source of truth and I want it

to remain the source of truth. So um I'm

going to go ahead and and run the prdone

command in like a cooking show kind of

way. So we're going to pretend I just

developed a feature using this new all

the new tools that my platform team um

just gave me. So, I'm running PR done,

which I'll talk about in just a moment.

There we go. And um

Oh, develop. Hold on.

>> You mess up. Did you mess it up?

>> Yes, I did. Yeah. Talk. [laughter]

>> I should have gotten a

>> You see, don't don't give AI to to to

people. [laughter]

>> I have Don't worry, I have a script for

this.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah.

Because if you execute it third time,

then it will work.

>> Uh I'm running a reset to v2 baseline

script.

>> Very good. Very good.

>> Yeah. And now I'm going to develop my

next version. Am I first I'm going to

check my branch.

>> Um please stop staring at me. [laughter]

>> It's so entertaining. There's nothing

nicer than seeing people fail,

>> especially when they're supposed to be

professionals who prepared for their

session.

>> [laughter]

>> that they know exactly what they're

going to show. They prepare. They know

what they're going to talk about. They

synchronize between speakers.

[laughter]

>> That's awesome.

>> How many times I've run this in my own

time. So that Okay, let's see what um

No, I don't I don't know what I did

wrong and I don't know how to recover.

Um

I'm just gonna we're gonna do this in

real time. I have a develop next feature

uh script that's supposed to set up

version three of my application with the

new PRD and cherrypick commands. Look at

that part of my script and tell me what

it does and tell me why it's not

working. This is how I really use Cloud

Code at home. I honestly really use

Whisper Flow too at home where I can

just talk to it. So, uh it really has

replaced Victor as my best friend.

[laughter]

Um,

so what I can show you in the meantime

though is we have these I have these PRD

commands that are available to me and

this is how I really did develop all the

features in this whole app. So when I

have an idea of what I want to do, I'm

going to use the prdreate slashcomand.

And when I do that, I'm going to have a

conversation with cloud code and cloud

code's going to ask me some questions.

I'm I might ask cloud code questions to

try to understand it. And once that's

done, it's going to create a PRD

document. PRD stands for product

requirements document. It's going to

create that PRD for me and it's also

going to create an issue for me.

Um yes. So let's here um what version 3

script does we want a clean reproducible

v3 development workflow and why it's

probably not working is

get your art on main one with commit

ahead. Yes.

fix it. How about just fix it?

I'm so spoiled, right? Um, so back to

the point. PRD. Uh, so I made the So

let's do it. I would make the PRD

creates with PRD create and it creates

the PRD and it creates a um it creates a

branch and then when I'm ready to

develop except not an issue. Then when

I'm ready to develop, I run prd start

and then prd start creates the branch

and get me started working.

And then once I'm done um I'm maybe done

for with work for the day but my

features not done I can do prd update

progress and that's going to check off

stuff in my prd that's done and that's

also going to make a work log of

everything I've done only if there are

changes. Whatever I'm just going to

[laughter]

this is an adventure. Uh, it's also

going to create a a so it's going to

mark off what I've done so far and

create a a log. So then next time I come

back to it, I can run prd next and it's

going to jump in right where I left off.

Like it's going it looks at recent

conversation. It looks at recent git

commits. It figures out what PRDs I'm

working on and figures out exactly where

I am in that PRD and it suggests what

our next uh work should be.

I have no idea how much I'm screwing up

my life when just agreeing to everything

that cloud code suggests. Um, [laughter]

and then one thing that happens often,

let me add one more fix p file. Okay.

[snorts] Um, one thing that happens

often is that I'll be working and and

working on on the feature I want to make

and then what happens is um is I I don't

want like the thing I thought I wanted

when I planned it. Now that I've it's

time to build it, I don't actually want

that thing.

>> So I have um so I have a script I have a

a PRD command for that too.

>> And that is PRD update decisions. And so

that's going to change the PRD based on

the new decisions I've made. And then

when it's done, I have PRD done, which

is what I was going to actually run for

you in person. Um, the script should now

work reliable reliably. Let's see. Uh,

reset to V2. Let's see.

No. Um,

>> I think that the important point, and

this is going to sound scary and you're

going to disagree with me most likely,

is that whatever interfaces you're

building right now, you're building some

CLIs, you're building some web UIs,

you're building some interfaces that

help developers do something, right?

That's what platform engineering is

about. You're building a platform in

APIs first and foremost, but then some

also some interfaces that developers can

use to interact with your platform. All

that will be partly or fully gone and

that's a reality that we need to face

today, right? Uh it will be gone simply

because the new interface that almost

all developers in your company will be

using is cursor or code

or uh what else is there? Copilot if

you're very unlucky. Um

and a few others, right?

And that creates some kind of ex

existential crisis, right? Because

I'm building a platform. I'm giving

people web interface. I'm giving them

CLI and they will stop using all those

things,

right? Because that's simply not the

direction that they are going unless we

force them, which is nice if you can

force people to do stuff, but then

that's slavery, not good. So what we

need to think about is how do we how do

we build bring what we are building

right now uh as a platform into those

tools into cloud code into cursor what's

not right and the answer to that

question not maybe from day one at the

very beginning that's prompts that's

commands it's easy but the answer for

that is codify all your platform all

your interactions with the platform as

MCP as an agent or something something

like

which is something that we would show

you if Whitney did not screw it up.

>> I you know what I did is I cleaned up my

>> There are no excuses.

>> There there is nothing you can say

[laughter]

to make me not be ashamed of this talk.

>> This is the first time we've we've done

like tons.

Thank [laughter] you. Thank you. Great.

Claude code did it. You all saw quad

code do it. Um so I can run prdone. I do

also before I u before it takes it away

from me when I'm read the cat. So this

as promised here's prdone done and so

it's going to go through that whole

process I demoed for you before which

the process I demoed for you before was

an improvement. It was nice for the

developer to have those tools handy and

to be able to do things a little more

quickly and easily than they could

before. But now it's now they're um with

this it's foolproof and we're following

company policy. For example, the

template, the PRD template I forgot to

follow. It's baked into what I'm doing.

So, um, it's gonna I don't know what's

happening. I'm just going to trust it.

[laughter]

Um, so I I want to go over the PRD, I

guess. Uh,

>> too late.

>> Too late. Um, it's been committed. Do we

want to complete the PRD workflow? Cool.

So, um, wow, that was fast. Uh, so the

PRD looks something like this. Right

now, we're running it through GitHub. Do

you know what? I'm going to skip ahead.

I I baked an error in there because I

wanted to demo something else. So, um,

there's something wrong with the

Kubernetes, uh, deployments. I want you

to remediate with the MTP tool.

>> Yeah,

>> the important Yeah. Press it. Press it.

>> Oh, it's been committed. I Well, I

haven't. Um,

shouldn't shouldn't it go through the PR

the uh

>> I I don't know. I never prepared for

this demo

>> for the PRD done command. Shouldn't you

be u making a PR and merging it and

stuff?

Um, we need to get that done first. And

now, spoiler alert, I baked in a

Kubernetes error, but um, so this is

kind of hard to see. It's a lot hard to

see. So, the PRD is actually quite long.

And um we have a problem statement,

solution summary, user impact, developer

experience that we want to have success

criteria that are all checked off

because the feature is done. We have

technical approach. This is the real PRD

that I really went through when I was

making this. We have multiple spiders,

layout, implementation approach, code,

comment strategy, milestones. Milestones

are a big thing I use when I'm

developing. To me, I want this to

represent enough work to fit into one

git commit. Like I'm I'm thinking in

terms of milestones. um acceptance

criteria. Um now it's working uh doing

more. It's using the p the pull request

template.

>> Finished.

>> Finish. Finish. Finish.

>> What? What do you want?

>> This high press.

>> Yeah. What are you trying to do? Wait.

[laughter]

>> Remind me not to use you next time in a

live demo. [laughter]

>> Stop it.

>> If we have any chance, I really want V.

I want everyone to see the horror.

[laughter]

They're kicking us out. She's looking at

us angrily. Look, look at look at it.

You see, you saw those eyes.

>> Okay. [laughter]

>> Have you seen those eyes?

>> But it's over. Those of you who saved

the QR code, I am going to push the the

horrific spider image. So, um, thank you

so much. Thanks for bearing with me.

This was a lot of fun. I hope you

learned something. Bye, y'all.

[applause]