Stefan Erschwendner

Stefan Erschwendner is Managing Partner at Frontira, where he helps organisations turn domain knowledge and workflows into working software through Agentic Business Engineering. His focus is on moving coding agents beyond prototypes into real operations, with clear ownership, reliable execution and human oversight. Together with his father Gerhard, he initiated Lobster Lager, connecting AI assisted software development with brewing expertise and physical hardware.

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When Coding Agents Leave the IDE: Building Software That Runs a Real World Business

AI Coding Summit NYC

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When Coding Agents Leave the IDE: Building Software That Runs a Real World Business

At 68, my father had brewed more than 200 batches but had never written code. With OpenClaw, we translated his brewing expertise into brewOS, an open source Python system that controls a Grainfather G30 over Bluetooth, exposes live state, and pauses for human approval at physical transitions. The case later appeared in Jensen Huang's NVIDIA GTC keynote and Peter Steinberger's TED2026 talk.

This practical 20 minute session goes beneath the headline and into the coding workflow and engineering boundaries. I show how we turned tacit domain knowledge into executable workflow state, separated AI assisted creation from deterministic execution, and hardened the result with bounded tools, state visibility, checkpoints, failure recovery, and human ownership. The distinct angle is what happens when agent generated code leaves the IDE and must operate a real physical process reliably.