---
title: "Don't Write Skills, Train Models (cont. 2/3)"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-06-30"
time: "3:20pm-3:40pm"
track: "Workshops Day 3"
room: "Track 4"
speakers: ["Brian Douglas"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: "Workshops Day 3"
scheduleRoom: "Track 4"
scheduleLabels: ["Workshops Day 3", "Track 4", "session", "confirmed"]
---
# Don't Write Skills, Train Models (cont. 2/3)

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 3:20pm-3:40pm
- Track/room: Workshops Day 3 · Track 4
- Speaker(s): Brian Douglas
- Session type/status: session · confirmed

- Track: Workshops Day 3
- Room: Track 4
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
Continuation block 2 of 3 for Brian Douglas's workshop session.

## Media Evidence
No related AI Engineer channel video found yet.

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph is generated from currently linked source material: official schedule text, related video pages, cached transcripts, visible slide text, dense/reconstructed slide pages, and AI slide-classification audits.

### Media Signals
No linked video, transcript, or slide source has been attached yet.

### Agent Reading Notes
Use these signals to refine the synopsis, topic links, people/company context, and method notes. If a source is a related external video rather than an exact official recording, keep it framed as supporting evidence.

## Transcript Status
No official session recording transcript was found by exact title match on the AI Engineer YouTube channel during this run.

## People
- [[brian-douglas]]

## Notes
- Pending transcript synthesis when an official recording or confirmed matching video is available.

## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# Don't Write Skills, Train Models (cont. 2/3) ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 3:20pm-3:40pm - Track/room: Workshops Day 3 · Track 4 - Speaker(s): Brian Douglas - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: Workshops Day 3 - Room: Track 4 - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description Continuation block 2 of 3 for Brian Douglas's workshop session. ## Media Evidence No related AI Engineer channel video found yet. ## Evidence Graph This evidence graph is generated from currently linked source material: official schedule text, related video pages, cached transcripts, visible slide text, dense/reconstructed slide pages, and AI slide-classification audits.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[brian-douglas|Brian Douglas]] — CoFounder at [[paper-compute-company|Paper Compute Company]].

### Topics Covered
- Topic links are pending transcript-backed classification.

### Derived Links And Source Material

### Novel Concepts / Clever Methods
- No highlighted novel concept has been detected yet.

### Evidence Boundary
This synthesis is based on the official schedule and linked source pages. It should be revisited when exact session recordings or transcript-backed secondary sources are available.