AI agent skills become much more useful when you treat them as context engineering, not just prompt templates.

Mike and Joe start with launch prep for Meet for Coffee, including naming cleanup, a simple homepage screenshot, support/terms polish, Terraform-managed infrastructure, and what it means to actually launch something instead of releasing it into the void.

Then Joe gives a practical walkthrough of how he is using AI agent skills at work:

- Turning repeated instructions into modular skills

- Keeping the agent instruction budget under control

- Boiling internal onboarding docs into usable agent guidance

- Converting governance processes into prepared inputs

- Using Markdown and Mermaid instead of traditional slide decks

- Planning an AI conference schedule from a sessions JSON file

- Why context engineering can matter more than perfect prompting

- How loose, natural language can help agents understand the spirit of the task

Mike and Joe also talk about AI-assisted knowledge work, clipping useful podcast segments, and the feeling of “context bending” when agents can pull, split, summarize, and apply information across repositories and workflows.

- 00:00 Meet for Coffee launch check-in

- 01:14 Homepage screenshot and product simplicity

- 04:51 Support, terms, and launch blockers

- 06:31 Terraform and infrastructure as code

- 07:31 Launch milestones and invite flow

- 10:38 Product launch, Product Hunt, and growth

- 12:17 Clipping the gold from the podcast

- 13:29 Past product launches and failures

- 16:32 Joe’s AI presentation workflow

- 22:17 What AI agent skills are for

- 26:15 Boiling governance into agent skills

- 29:31 Markdown, Mermaid, and presentation deliverables

- 36:06 Compliant inputs from repository context

- 40:21 Using AI to plan a conference schedule

- 43:34 Context engineering vs prompt engineering

- 45:00 Prompting with natural language and intent

- 52:53 AI tools changing knowledge work

- 55:41 Context bending and performance reviews

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