Vitaliy Matiyash · Writing
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Conference notes, technical observations, and thoughts on building software in a world that keeps changing.

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Agent Skills talk title slide
Agent Skills: Teaching AI Agents Your Team's Way of Working

The written version of my Momentum 2026 talk — what an agent skill is, how it loads, how it differs from CLAUDE.md and MCP, and where skills break.

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Building a Lead-Gen Funnel Dashboard by Prompting an AI Agent

A practical walkthrough of the Forgeline funnel dashboard — seeded synthetic data, intent segments, D3.js panels, and the prompts that build it step by step.

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Deceptive UX Patterns
Deceptive UX Patterns: From Confirmshaming to Sycophantic AI

What engineers need to know about the dark side of product design — from classic roach motels and confirmshaming to AI-washed manipulation and agentic deception.

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QA or the Highway 2026
QA or the Highway 2026: Quality Engineering in the Age of AI Agents

Seven talks. Four takeaways. One emerging job description. Notes from a day in Columbus on what quality engineering looks like when AI agents are writing the code.