Co-founder and chief executive of Boundary, where he develops BAML, an open-source programming language for AI applications and agents, per the conference's speaker page.
Why their word counts: Runs the company and describes its own engineering practices and the language it builds; Boundary sells AI tooling and has reason to present its approach favorably.
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“ But the real problem with all of this is I built this and I hit a little bit of AI psychosis. And I started shipping 10 design docs a day. And soon, the team was fighting my slop. … This last rule was … ship a design doc, you require people to actually go read it. And with this last standard, we suddenly had design docs … incredibly high quality.” Vaibhav Gupta Co-founder and Chief Executive · Executive ,
Context. Gupta is describing the design-document tool he built for the team and the rule that followed.
Talk: Fighting Slop with Slop , AI Engineer (YouTube) , July 31, 2026, at 3:37 .
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“ We built an architecture.md file. Instead of using … MD, just pick something that every model can just understand. This file has to be incredibly small, and it can only have things that will not change for months or for years. In our case, it's the layers of the compiler. … So now we have standards so anyone can use whatever they want.” Vaibhav Gupta Co-founder and Chief Executive · Executive ,
Context. Gupta is describing how the team sets shared standards when engineers choose their own AI tools.
Talk: Fighting Slop with Slop , AI Engineer (YouTube) , July 31, 2026, at 2:10 .
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“ This tool basically visualizes our dependency graph internally with some external dependencies as well, … But what's more interesting is we can go build CLI tools that guarantee that certain invariants can't be broken. And what this does is when Claude builds a new package or adds a dependency that's leaky, we now have CI/CD changing or a simple git commit history that tells us exactly where things break. And by this, we're actually able to make our architecture change. We haven't changed our architecture in the last three or four months.” Vaibhav Gupta Co-founder and Chief Executive · Executive ,
Context. Gupta is describing how the team keeps the BAML code base from drifting when engineers do not review each other's code.
Talk: Fighting Slop with Slop , AI Engineer (YouTube) , July 31, 2026, at 4:05 .
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“ we have a very simple rule in our team. Code can be slop, writing cannot. … What this design doc tool does, it's a replacement for both Notion and GitHub, effectively for design docs. It allows versioning, commenting, all the stuff you want. … We built another tool on top of that. And this tool was a slack integration for that tool. Every time a design doc got updated, this channel got notifications. And what ended up happening is this channel became the most popular channel in our company really fast.” Vaibhav Gupta Co-founder and Chief Executive · Executive ,
Context. Gupta is describing how the team keeps design documents good while letting code be generated.
Talk: Fighting Slop with Slop , AI Engineer (YouTube) , July 31, 2026, at 2:43 .
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“ When we started building BAML, I didn't think it would be possible to build some of the software we did. And just yesterday, one of … engineers built a partial C compiler, purely in BAML. … Our processes have to evolve if we're going to ship at agent speed.” Vaibhav Gupta Co-founder and Chief Executive · Executive ,
Context. Gupta is describing what the team has been able to build in BAML, the programming language it makes.
Talk: Fighting Slop with Slop , AI Engineer (YouTube) , July 31, 2026, at 19:47 .
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“ We do no code reviews. We require every engineer to work on things in parallel, and we have no standardization how people do AI.” Vaibhav Gupta Co-founder and Chief Executive · Executive ,
Context. Opening of a conference talk by the chief executive of Boundary, the company that builds the BAML programming language, on how its team works.
Talk: Fighting Slop with Slop , AI Engineer (YouTube) , July 31, 2026, at 0:26 .
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Boundary (BoundaryML)