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Declarative programming

Ash Framework: Declarative Elixir Web Apps • Rebecca Le, Zach Daniel & C. Alexander • GOTO 2026

Ash Framework: Declarative Elixir Web Apps • Rebecca Le, Zach Daniel & C. Alexander • GOTO 2026

Rebecca Le and Zach Daniel, co-authors of the Ash Framework book, discuss how their Tunez-based guide was built to introduce concepts in the order a real project needs them, how writing it forced the addition of generator-based testing to Ash, and why Ash's extensibility, Cinder's rapid development, and AI-assisted onboarding make its steep but flattening learning curve worthwhile.

Stop Telling Agents How — Dan Barrett, Raymond Weitekamp & Jose Montes de Oca, OpenProse

Stop Telling Agents How — Dan Barrett, Raymond Weitekamp & Jose Montes de Oca, OpenProse

The OpenProse team presents a declarative approach to multi-agent workflows, where developers and domain experts write contracts in plain markdown that any harness can compile and run. The talk covers event-driven jobs triggered by webhooks and pull requests, a grumpy-senior PR reviewer demo, a bank model-documentation workflow, composing contracts, pinning successful runs into deterministic workflows, and how the approach contrasts with DSPy.