documentation/presentations/less-prompting-more-shipping

Less Prompting, More Shipping — v1.1.0

An explanation for the CTO and engineering leads: understand the intended destination and decide how a solo AI Architect should contribute in the first six months. The original AI_Architect_Test_Task.pdf supplies the assumed context, four questions and 50-minute total. The same-build Strategy supplies the connected narrative: Target → Roadmap → 6 Months Target → 6 Months Roadmap → Beyond 6 Months. The six-month contribution neither replaces the long-term human-controlled autonomous SDLC nor authorizes it.

Story and timing

23 slides: 21 main slides / 35 minutes, one 15-minute Q&A, one zero-minute reference appendix. EXP-01 is now one two-minute illustration, not the spine of the strategy. Its detailed fictional sample, extension caps and stop ledger remain in speaker notes and the canonical linked Strategy packet.

The table is the revised presentation allocation. The PDF prescribes 50 minutes total, not this split. The six-month Strategy page still contains an earlier proposed outline; its exact subsection timings are not claimed to match this destination-first deck. No Strategy page was rewritten to accommodate the presentation.

Slide	Minutes / elapsed	Main message	Strategy evidence (canonical slug)
1	1 / 0–1	Destination and first contribution	target-operating-model; roadmap; six-months-target; PDF
2	2 / 1–3	Existing uneven AI; solo CTO-reporting role; unknowns	six-months-target; PDF Context/Q1/assumptions
3	1 / 3–4	Accepted output, not faster drafts	six-months-target; baseline; measurement
4	3 / 4–7	Intended SDLC cycle and central human-controlled agent	target-operating-model
5	1 / 7–8	Eight outside human-controlled contributors	target-operating-model
6	2 / 8–10	Delivery-first adoption, then other phases, then separate autonomy	roadmap; target-operating-model
7	2 / 10–12	Connected skills and repeating within-phase learning	roadmap; stage-01-skills-adoption
8	1 / 12–13	First-six-month building block toward Target	six-months-target; target-operating-model
9	1 / 13–14	Influence beside work, no team authority	six-months-roadmap
10	2 / 14–16	Months 1–2: discover, baseline, agree	six-months-roadmap; baseline
11	2 / 16–18	Months 3–4: qualify, test, compare	six-months-roadmap
12	2 / 18–20	Months 5–6: conditional transfer and handover	six-months-roadmap; six-months-target
13	1 / 20–21	Solo capacity, one live pilot, funded support	six-months-roadmap
14	2 / 21–23	Acceptance, burden, quality and total costs	measurement; six-months-roadmap
15	2 / 23–25	Misleading signals and causal limits	measurement; six-months-roadmap
16	2 / 25–27	Qualification is not pilot permission	skills-quality; six-months-roadmap
17	2 / 27–29	Fictional EXP-01: cheapest fit, hold, then stop	six-months-roadmap
18	1 / 29–30	Realistic month-six evidence portfolio	six-months-target; six-months-roadmap
19	2 / 30–32	Evidence-led investment toward established destination	stage-02-autonomous-agent; target-operating-model; roadmap; six-months-target
20	2 / 32–34	Separate bounded authority, stop and human takeover	stage-02-autonomous-agent; target-operating-model
21	1 / 34–35	First CTO alignment and four answers	six-months-roadmap; PDF Q1–4
22	15 / 35–50	Q&A	PDF Format; six-months-target
23	0 / optional	Linked references, outside the main talk	PDF; all five Strategy pages plus measurement

PDF Q1 What you do → slides 2, 9–13. Q2 How you measure it → 14–17. Q3 What you achieve → 8 and 18. Q4 What comes next → 4–7 establish the destination; 19–20 explain evidence-led progression. Scale/growth/uneven AI use are assignment facts, not independently measured company facts. Stack, providers, data policy, task supply, partner capacity and bottlenecks remain unknown or hypotheses, explained on slide 2 and in discovery notes.

Source and build

• slides.mjs is the single editorial source for standalone and homepage. Every slide has section, track, timing, narration and source references. Notes are public HTML, never confidential.
• target-figure.mjs provides two presentation-sized views of the original topology. Slide 4 preserves the eight ordered cycle edges and eight governance spokes, including Releases → Scope. Slide 5 preserves all eight external code-* → phase contribution edges. There is one central autonomous agent, not a separate Humans node or a reporting hierarchy. Tests compare all three edge sets with the original diagram JSON; desktop and phone are recomposed, not shrunk documentation screenshots.
• theme.css preserves portal Lato/gold/charcoal/light surfaces and isolated standalone styles. Distinct cycle, contribution layer, staged progression, learning loop and horizon compositions support the story.
• runtime.js is unchanged: Reveal, reduced motion, responsive portrait layout, toolbar, isolated embedded focus/URL and no autoplay.
• scripts/build-presentations.mjs generates the same canonical route, exact-pinned local Reveal.js 5.2.1, notes plugin, Lato assets/licenses and source-map.json. The map includes slide IDs/sections/tracks/minutes/sources, four-question coverage, exact Strategy and topology source hashes, and provenance without claiming historical revisions are current. No runtime CDN.

From repository root: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile, pnpm test, pnpm typecheck, pnpm build, pnpm verify:build. Serve build/ under /eldorado-v1/documentation/ with a static server. The canonical route remains /eldorado-v1/documentation/presentations/less-prompting-more-shipping/. The homepage's Understand In Speed embeds that generated document, not a duplicated slide source. Existing Organization, Strategy, homepage component and runtime sources are preserved.

Present and verify

Arrows/touch navigate. Esc/Overview shows the grid. F/Fullscreen and S/Notes work standalone; embedded focus stays within its own document and parent URL is unchanged. Notes need HTTP(S) and popups. Named deep links such as #/target and #/qualification survive refresh. Print uses ?print-pdf: Chromium, landscape, no margins, background graphics. Export has 23 pages, without notes. No unsolicited PDF/PPTX/ZIP is published.

pnpm test:presentation <base> covers 23 slides at desktop, portrait and landscape (69 views), bounds, errors, links, hash/refresh, keyboard, touch, overview, notes popup, fullscreen, homepage handoff and 23-page print layout. pnpm test:homepage-embed <base> covers 23 slides at four widths (92 views), focus/scroll/URL isolation, touch, fullscreen, unsupported-fullscreen escape, Tab exit, themes and reduced motion. Outputs are ordered individual PNGs and JSON in .cache/presentation/ and .cache/homepage-embed/; inspect real pixels, not just geometry. Set PLAYWRIGHT_CHROMIUM_EXECUTABLE for an installed browser.

Local Docusaurus serve on Node 26 redirects WOFF2 paths with a trailing slash in this environment. Use a regular prefix-correct static server for production-equivalent font verification; missing-font screenshots are not acceptable evidence.

Official runtime references: https://revealjs.com/installation/, https://revealjs.com/speaker-view/, https://revealjs.com/pdf-export/. The pinned package is intentional; runtime API compatibility is judged against 5.2.1, not latest-version assumptions.

Boundaries

No guaranteed benefits, approved thresholds, staffing commitments or deployed autonomy. The intended long-term destination is explicit, while its timing and authority remain unapproved. First-six-month failure or a cheaper deterministic intervention is compatible with that direction. Human product, risk and release authority is retained. Skills carry knowledge and verification, not permission.

Dependency manifests are unchanged. Previously recorded production audit: 2 critical, 2 high, 2 moderate; this presentation revision is neither remediation nor security-risk acceptance. Chromium viewport testing is not Safari/Firefox, physical-device or full assistive-technology certification. This branch is a review candidate; the dependent reviewer owns merge, exact-main CI and deployed verification.