Everyone is obsessed with autonomous agents right now, but you don't always need one. Often, the better approach is to use AI to generate structured data up front, then let standard code handle the rest. Keep it simple: use AI to build the setup, and run simple logic at runtime.

To prove it, I built an AI movement coach that breaks down videos (like a tennis serve, dance move, or martial arts kata) into step-by-step interactive lessons. A live webcam coach then tracks your form and scores you as you practice.

I built the app using AI tools, but at runtime, it only makes a single call to Claude per new lesson (and even that can be skipped). Once a lesson is created, the system caches it and converts each movement into target joint angles. Plain math handles the scoring in real time. The result is fast, cheap, predictable, and simple.

In this talk, I'll walk through:

Forty tabs open. Back-to-back meetings. An AI coding assistant quietly wiping your context every twenty minutes. If that's your day too, you already know what it feels like to walk into a room mentally exhausted and without the one thing you need to make a decision.

I built a Slack bot to fix that for myself. I'll show you what it does and how to build one for yourself.

AI lets us move faster and decide more, but our brains and bodies haven't kept pace. David looks at what research says about mental fatigue and recovery, and why movement, nature, and intentional downtime aren't just good for your health — they're how you get your focus back.

I'll share our experience building RorkAI, an AI builder for fullstack React apps without code. It's like Replit meets Webflow/Framer. We're very early stage, but built a fully working prototype in 4 weeks, and we're proud to share our experience.
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