I left Claude on its own overnight to build an application for a friend’s project: laying out a comic set in fifteenth-century Florence.

My friend got his app. I got something out of it too: a nervous breakdown.

In this talk, recommended by my therapist as a cathartic exercise, I try to tell the story of my misadventures with models that take you too literally, and what I learned from the experience.

A lightning talk for developers who have handed an ambitious task to an agent and wondered what could go wrong. One unusual application, a comic set in Renaissance Florence, gives the story a memorable setting. The speaker’s own misadventures make room for humour while exposing a practical question: how can an agent follow your instructions and still miss what you meant? A compact session for prompting discussion about intent, delegation and verification. Available in English and Italian.