MongoDB UX Foundation
Building a team of agents you can trust
What it takes to hand work to AI agents and stop watching them: receipts instead of claims, questions that come to you, and authority you can see.
Who it's for: Designers and builders at MongoDB's UX Foundation who already use Claude Code and Codex.
Work through these in order
Lessons
- 01
Start here
The idea behind the talk, and how to use these lessons.
5 minutes - 02
Write the definition of done first
Decide how you'll know the work is finished before the agent starts.
10 minutes - 03
Ask for evidence, not a summary
Make the agent show its work in a form you can check.
10 minutes - 04
Use a second session as the reviewer
Get an independent look from an agent that didn't write the work.
10 minutes - 05
Write down what it may decide alone
Turn your standing preferences into instructions, so the agent asks less and guesses less.
15 minutes - 06
Design your interrupts
Decide when an agent should get your attention, and make it come to you.
10 minutes