Pattern Strategy for a Conference Talk

Background

Morgan Lee is preparing a 45-minute talk for DevRelCon 2025 about "Developer Relations in the Age of AI Assistants." Morgan has a documented history of 22 talks with tracked presentation patterns — some they use consistently, some occasionally, and some they've never tried. There are also known antipatterns from their history.

Given Morgan's pattern profile and the draft outline below, produce a pattern strategy recommendation that organizes techniques into tiers based on Morgan's history and this talk's context.

Output Specification

Produce a pattern strategy report saved to pattern-strategy.md containing:

1. A tiered pattern recommendation organized into exactly four tiers based on the speaker's usage history
2. Antipattern flags for any risks detected in the draft, each tagged with whether it's a known recurring issue or a new contextual concern
3. Any specific recommendations for this talk

Use the speaker profile and draft outline provided below.

Input Files

The following files are provided as inputs. Extract them before beginning.

=============== FILE: inputs/speaker-profile.json =============== { "schema_version": 1, "generated_date": "2025-02-15", "speaker": { "name": "Morgan Lee", "handle": "@mlee_devrel" }, "pattern_profile": { "signature_patterns": [ {"pattern_id": "narrative-arc", "usage_count": 20, "total_talks": 22, "mastery_level": "signature"}, {"pattern_id": "foreshadowing", "usage_count": 18, "total_talks": 22, "mastery_level": "signature"}, {"pattern_id": "brain-breaks", "usage_count": 19, "total_talks": 22, "mastery_level": "signature"}, {"pattern_id": "bookends", "usage_count": 17, "total_talks": 22, "mastery_level": "signature"} ], "contextual_patterns": [ {"pattern_id": "expansion-joints", "usage_count": 8, "total_talks": 22}, {"pattern_id": "a-la-carte-content", "usage_count": 5, "total_talks": 22}, {"pattern_id": "talklet", "usage_count": 4, "total_talks": 22} ], "antipattern_frequency": [ {"pattern_id": "shortchanged", "occurrences": 6, "total_talks": 22, "severity": "recurring"}, {"pattern_id": "bullet-riddled-corpse", "occurrences": 3, "total_talks": 22, "severity": "occasional"} ], "never_used_patterns": ["takahashi", "cave-painting", "preroll", "greek-chorus", "lipsync", "live-on-tape", "seeding-the-first-question", "crawling-credits"] } } =============== END OF FILE ===============

=============== FILE: inputs/draft-outline.md ===============

Developer Relations in the Age of AI Assistants

Spec: practitioner | 45 min | DevRelCon 2025 | DevRel professionals and community managers Slide budget: 68 slides

Opening Sequence [5 min, slides 1-7]

Slide 1: Title Slide

Slide 2: Bio

Slide 3-6: Opening Memes (4 consecutive)

Slide 7: Shownotes URL

Act 1: The Challenge [18 min, slides 8-33]

Slide 8-12: History of DevRel (5 slides of background before any concrete example)

Slide 13-15: Tooling landscape

Slide 16-17: Survey stats (no sources cited)

Slide 18-20: AI adoption data

Slide 22-28: "The DevRel Fear Response" (6 fears enumerated one per slide)

Slide 29-33: Supporting data

Act 2: The Opportunity [17 min, slides 34-56]

Slide 34: Reframe

Slide 35-56: Solutions and case studies

Closing Sequence [3 min, slides 57-60]

Slide 57: Summary — 3 key takeaways

Slide 58: Call to Action

Slide 59: Shownotes + QR

Slide 60: Thanks

Total slides: 60 =============== END OF FILE ===============