Richard Brough
Chief Technology Officer, Blue Beck Ltd
Richard is the CTO at Blue Beck Ltd, an experienced software professional focussed on Machine Learning / AI and Apps with a passion for Open Source AI and a strong interest in novel ways AI & Machine Learning can be used. Richard started his career at RARE as a console game developer, and went on to backend service, machine learning and mobile development.
In 2025 Richard spoke at numerous conferences including Global AI Barcelona, Dev Talks Bucharest (one of the largest developer conferences in Eastern Europe), DevBCN, Tech Mids Conference and NDC Manchester, these have ranged from high level talks about Open Source AI models, to experiments with MCP and a detailed explanation about model alignment with DeepSeek R1.
Here is a video with some clips of his talks https://vimeo.com/1105715168
Inside the Agent. Under the Hood of Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode.
AI agents are transforming software development but are often seen as black box. This talk looks inside the agent at the complex, multi-agent execution loop that gets kicked off by your prompt, and its corresponding context window.
We will look the back-and-forth LLM interactions, the hidden system prompts, tool schemas, and contexts exchanged every iteration, using real world telemetry to see how tokens accumulate during tasks, how caching helps and when it doesn’t.
Finally we look at the open source tools available to collate, and analyse histories so you can see what is going on with your own use of these tools.