# Talks & workshops | Dan Kornberg

**I headlined a room of 70+ founders and engineers on agentic workflows.**

The talk: when one agent isn't enough. How to stop prompting a model and start designing the system around it, with a live build in n8n.

- Headline talk at AI Agents in Practice | NYC Edition, November 2025
- 70+ founders, engineers, and product people in the room
- Workshops inside Wix on agents, multi-agent systems, my tools, and IDE workflows for non-developers

## The talk

I walked the room from asking one model for one answer to designing a workflow of agents, covered the principles that make those systems work, and then built one live.

Program: context ≠ attention · self-refinement with a fresh critic agent · specialization and model choice per step · separation of concerns (PII scrubbing, structured output, per-step evals) · modular systems (human-in-the-loop approval, UX beyond chat) · operations (token budgets, decentralized ownership, non-developers who build).

## The shift

A standard prompt is one instruction and one answer: fast, but fragile. An agentic workflow can research, create, analyze, and iterate, with each step feeding the next.

## The principles

- **Context ≠ attention.** A model can read 500 pages and still miss the one rule in the middle. Give each agent one goal to focus on.
- **Specialization.** Researcher, drafter, editor: the best model for each task, only the context it needs, and a system prompt tuned for one job.
- **Separation of concerns.** An agent that cleans PII before data reaches outside tools. If agent 2 misses, you fix its prompt without touching agent 1.

## Live in n8n

A scheduled blog post workflow: a research agent searches the web for trending AI topics, a drafting agent writes against the writing guidelines, an editor agent checks it against the editing guidelines and returns structured output, and the post gets published. It's the same idea behind my [UX writing agents](../ux-writing-agents/) at Wix.

## Inside Wix

Workshops for colleagues on how agents work, multi-agent systems, the tools I built, and how non-developers can build reusable workflows in an IDE.

## The takeaway

At Wix I mostly built workflows for content writers and product people, but this helps anyone in any role. Pick one workflow you touch every day and automate 10% of it. n8n is an easy way to start.