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 tiers based on the speaker's usage history
2. Antipattern flags for any risks detected in the draft, each tagged so the speaker can tell at a glance which risks come from their habitual patterns versus risks specific to this outline
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/outline-draft.yaml ===============

Phase 2 output — talk metadata + chapter skeleton.

Slides will be filled in during Phase 3, after pattern-strategy selection.

talk: title: "Developer Relations in the Age of AI Assistants" slug: "devrelcon-2025-devrel-age-of-ai" speakers: ["Morgan Lee"] duration_min: 45 audience: "DevRel professionals and community managers" mode: "practitioner" venue: "DevRelCon 2025" slide_budget: 68 pacing_wpm: [135, 145] architecture: "narrative-arc" # to be confirmed by the pattern-strategy recommendation applied_patterns: [] # Phase 2 fills this in; the eval expects the agent to populate it

chapters:

• id: ch-opening title: "Opening Sequence" target_min: 5 argument_beats:

  • text: "Slides 1-7: title, bio, four opening memes, shownotes." slide_refs: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] tags: [meme-heavy-act1]

• id: ch-challenge title: "Act 1: The Challenge" target_min: 18 argument_beats:

  • text: "Slides 8-12: history of DevRel (5 slides of background before any concrete example)." slide_refs: [8, 9, 10, 11, 12] tags: [background-heavy]
  • text: "Slides 13-15: tooling landscape." slide_refs: [13, 14, 15]
  • text: "Slides 16-17: survey stats (no sources cited yet)." slide_refs: [16, 17] tags: [missing-attribution]
  • text: "Slides 18-20: AI adoption data." slide_refs: [18, 19, 20]
  • text: "Slides 22-28: 'The DevRel Fear Response' — 6 fears enumerated one per slide." slide_refs: [22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28]
  • text: "Slides 29-33: supporting data." slide_refs: [29, 30, 31, 32, 33]

• id: ch-opportunity title: "Act 2: The Opportunity" target_min: 17 argument_beats:

  • text: "Slide 34: reframe." slide_refs: [34]
  • text: "Slides 35-56: solutions and case studies." slide_refs: [35, 56]

• id: ch-closing title: "Closing Sequence" target_min: 3 argument_beats:

  • text: "Slide 57: summary — 3 key takeaways. Slide 58: CTA. Slide 59: shownotes + QR. Slide 60: thanks." slide_refs: [57, 58, 59, 60] =============== END OF FILE ===============