Prototyping as Leadership: How a CTO Ships with AI Agents
I am a CTO and co-founder with a toddler, 15+ recurring meetings a week, 7 direct reports, and right now—7 open pull requests across two repos. Most engineering leaders eventually hit a wall where this kind of calendar tetris forces them to stop shipping code and start communicating solely through roadmaps. But what if AI agents didn't just act as coding assistants, but fundamentally restructured how executives use fragmented time to prototype the future? In this talk, I will share the exact multi-model workflows I use to plan with one model, implement with another, and build asynchronous play-and-feedback loops that fit perfectly between meetings. You will learn how to navigate code reviews for agent-assisted executive PRs, and leverage AI to shift your leadership style from telling your team what to build to showing them functional prototypes.
About the AI Architects: Show my Workflow Track
AI Architects: Show my Workflow sessions at AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 in San Francisco.
When
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
12:05 PM - 12:25 PM·20m
Where
Leadership 2 · Room 3020
Capacity: 550 attendees
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Speaker
Hursh Agrawal
Co-founder and CTO
The Browser Company
Hursh Agrawal is the Co-founder and CTO of The Browser Company, makers of the Arc and Dia browsers. His work spans compilers (bringing Swift to Windows in partnership with Apple), browser architecture (building on Chromium at scale), and AI product quality (designing eval systems that let small teams ship and improve AI features fast). Previously, he co-founded Branch, which was acquired by Meta. He spends most of his time in the gap between research and production - making technically complex systems workable for the engineers who build consumer products on top of them.