Agenda
Confessions of Vibe-Coding Producers: How AI Helped Us Automate Away the Boring Parts
Aaron Price (Production Director, Owlchemy Labs)
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Track:
Production & Team Leadership
Audience Level:
All
Format:
Lecture
Vault Recording: TBD
Audience Level: All
Five years ago, if a producer needed an internal tool, we filed a ticket and waited our turn. Now we just build it. Last spring, five Owlchemy producers spent a month using agentic coding to ship nearly a dozen tools that wire Slack, Jira, Notion, Miro, and more together, and got back dozens of people-hours every month. This talk is the full confession: what we built, where we failed (and learned), and the playbook we wish someone had handed us on day one.
Takeaway
- How to tell which production workflows are worth automating (the sweet spot: high-frequency, low-skill, cross-tool busywork)
- How non-engineers can ship internal tools without breaking the studio: guardrails, agent code reviews, and keeping a human in the loop
- Real before-and-after numbers, including the places automation didn't pay off
- Our best failure stories, from the "automate everything" trap to the tool that worked great and got turned off anyway
- How to run a tooling project inside a busy production org without derailing the actual schedule
- How non-engineers can ship internal tools without breaking the studio: guardrails, agent code reviews, and keeping a human in the loop
- Real before-and-after numbers, including the places automation didn't pay off
- Our best failure stories, from the "automate everything" trap to the tool that worked great and got turned off anyway
- How to run a tooling project inside a busy production org without derailing the actual schedule
Intended Audience
Producers, leadership, team leads, and anybody else whose weeks keep disappearing into cross-tool busywork. No programming background required (that's the whole point). Also handy for engineering leads deciding how much tooling freedom to give everyone else.