Biography
Nicolas Léonard is the founder of Experimenta, a European-based network of senior tech operators. Experimenta helps CEOs, CTOs, and CPOs make AI part of how the company works.
He spent 13 years in product at Luko, Thiga, and Viadeo, then went back to IC roles to help companies including Evaneos, SightCall, Coinhouse, and Bricks.
He writes and speaks about the gap that opens when anyone can build, the identity crisis hitting the PM role, the discipline of knowing what NOT to build.
Session
- AI For BuildersSpeaker
Demo 12 - When anyone can build, the person who decides WHAT to build becomes the bottleneck
Tuesday 22 September, 15:30 – 15:55Demo RoomBuilding got cheap. Deciding what deserves to be built did not. At Bricks I shipped production AI agents acting as product builder with coding agents as teammates. I could move faster than ever but I quickly realized that my ability to judge whether what I had just built was actually right dropped. This talk is field notes from that gap. What breaks when delivery outruns judgment. Why stuffing more context into agents makes them try to satisfy everything and what I think builders need to change now, whether you’re a PM, an engineer, or a founder watching your team figure out who owns what.