Conference45min
Backlog.md: The simplest project management tool for the AI Era
This talk explores the challenges of integrating AI agents into software development, where traditional best practices fall short. It introduces Backlog.md—a tool for structuring AI-assisted workflows using Spec-Driven AI Development. Attendees will learn to break tasks into manageable units, enabling more predictable, reviewable, and automated feature delivery with minimal AI expertise required.
Alex GavrilescuFunstage GmbH
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Friday, February 6, 14:05-14:50
Room A
Developing with AI agents like Claude, Codex, or Cursor can quickly turn into a troubleshooting nightmare. All the best practices you've mastered: DDD, SOLID, or Extreme Programming, suddenly feel obsolete when a non-deterministic AI model takes the wheel.
In this talk, I'll share my journey through this chaos and how it led me to create Backlog.md, a tool that brings structure back to AI-assisted workflows. It won't solve every problem, but by breaking work into smaller, manageable tasks, it makes results more deterministic and easier to review.
We'll see Backlog.md in action, implementing the Spec-Driven AI Development flow in minutes to build features efficiently.
By the end, you'll be able to:
Backlog.md's code was written 99% by AI agents, proving the process delivers great results for developers.
P.S. No prior AI experience necessary. If you've ever typed `git pull`, you're ready!
In this talk, I'll share my journey through this chaos and how it led me to create Backlog.md, a tool that brings structure back to AI-assisted workflows. It won't solve every problem, but by breaking work into smaller, manageable tasks, it makes results more deterministic and easier to review.
We'll see Backlog.md in action, implementing the Spec-Driven AI Development flow in minutes to build features efficiently.
By the end, you'll be able to:
- Understand AI agents and how to structure tasks with Backlog.md
- Apply the Spec-Driven AI Development flow for more predictable workflows
- Use a repeatable loop to build features almost on autopilot
Backlog.md's code was written 99% by AI agents, proving the process delivers great results for developers.
P.S. No prior AI experience necessary. If you've ever typed `git pull`, you're ready!
Alex Gavrilescu
Alex Gavrilescu leads backend & web engineering at Funstage GmbH in Vienna, keeping millions of free‑to‑play gamers happily tapping. He still ships code, tinkers with Raspberry Pi Kubernetes clusters for fun, and is passionate about weaving project‑management smarts with practical AI. Most recently he created Backlog.md, a micro‑tool that turns side‑project chaos into shippable tasks.
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