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The Prompt is the Platform - Dominik Tornow, Resonate HQ

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AI Engineer· published 2026-06-29· 0:17:33· en-US· indexed 2026-08-11 05:48

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Transcript

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  1. 0:02 In 2026, coding agents will quietly retire their first software platform.
  2. 0:09 Not because it's bad, simply because the platform is unnecessary.
  3. 0:15 I am Dominik Thurnow.
  4. 0:16 I am founder and CEO of Resonate.
  5. 0:19 Resonate is a durable execution platform built with minimalism and simplicity as its core technical values.
  6. 0:27 And these properties will play a central role in this talk.
  7. 0:31 At Resonate, we have a working theory where software engineering is headed.
  8. 0:37 General purpose implementations will increasingly be replaced by bespoke implementations generated on demand, not as a new library, a new framework, or a new platform, but as a minimal extension of the infrastructure that is already in place.
  9. 0:57 If this theory holds true,
  10. 1:00 reuse will move upstream.
  11. 1:03 Instead of reusing a general purpose implementation, we will reuse a specification, and we will derive a bespoke implementation from it.
  12. 1:16 In fact, we can build many bespoke implementations, tailor-made for the infrastructure that is already in place.
  13. 1:24 We just have to ask the agent.
  14. 1:27 At this point, the prompt is the platform.
  15. 1:33 Resonate is a dual execution platform.
  16. 1:35 We have an implementation of the Resonate server.
  17. 1:38 We have implementations of the Resonate SDK for TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go, and Java.
  18. 1:45 So we have to ask, what does this new reality mean for us?
  19. 1:51 If implementations become generatable, where does our value live?
  20. 1:57 And our answer, our value moves from implementation to specification.
  21. 2:05 Now this changes how we think about Resonate.
  22. 2:09 The product is no longer the implementation.
  23. 2:12 The product is the specification, the protocol.
  24. 2:15 And from that protocol, we want to derive multiple server implementations.
  25. 2:22 One is a general purpose Resonate server, our reference implementation.
  26. 2:26 Others are implementations built with infrastructure partners.
  27. 2:31 For customers and partners, this means durable execution right on top of their existing infrastructure with minimal additional dependencies.
  28. 2:40 So the question is no longer, can we build a server?
  29. 2:44 The question is, can we repeatedly synthesize trusted servers from the same specification?
  30. 2:51 And if so, how?
  31. 2:58 When we talk about agentic engineering, we focus all of our attention on verification.
  32. 3:04 How do we know the result is correct?
  33. 3:07 But today, I want to focus on the specification instead.
  34. 3:12 And more importantly, how can agents participate in specifying the system, not just building or verifying it?
  35. 3:23 Now, Resonate is partnering with multiple infrastructure providers to bring durable executions natively to their technology stack.
  36. 3:31 One of them is Sunadia, the company behind NATSIO, an open source messaging system designed for building modern distributed systems.
  37. 3:41 For the rest of this presentation, we will use Resonate on NATSIO to explore our agentic engineering practices.
  38. 3:49 How do we go from specification to implementation?
  39. 3:53 First, we need to level set our mental model.
  40. 3:58 This picture is a common view of agent decoding.
  41. 4:02 There's an agent, there's a specification, and then there's an implementation.
  42. 4:08 And for many applications, that is enough.
  43. 4:11 But it is not enough for what we are trying to do, because we are not trying to generate one implementation from a specification.
  44. 4:23 We are trying to generate multiple target-specific implementations from the specification.
  45. 4:29 So the specification must not take any aspect of an implementation into account.
  46. 4:36 The specification must not assume a concrete database schema or concrete indices.
  47. 4:42 The specification must not even assume a relational database with tables and transactions at all.
  48. 4:48 It must not assume a key value store.
  49. 4:50 It must not assume weak consistency.
  50. 4:52 It must not assume strong consistency.

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