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Beyond the Harness: Canvas for AI Agents
Nimisha Asthagiri explains why shifting from rigid harness engineering to a bounded canvas model empowers autonomous AI agents while managing architecture drift and cognitive debt.
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Context is the New Code
Patrick Debois explains how treating context like code transforms the Software Development Life Cycle into a Context Development Life Cycle to scale AI agent workflows reliably across teams.
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The Agent Harness: Control Planes, Invariants, and Approval Boundaries for Production AI Agents
OpenAI’s Vinoth Govindarajan explains how to build reliable AI agent harnesses in production, focusing on state ownership, mutation ordering, scoped authority, and user-visible proof of action.
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Complexity and Creativity in Software Engineering
Phillip Mortimer explains why all code is now write-only in the AI era, detailing how software leaders must shift focus from line-by-line PR reviews to detailed tests and self-healing architecture.
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Platform Engineering in the Age of AI
The panelists discuss how internal developer platforms adapt for AI-assisted engineering, balancing standardization, guardrails, and developer autonomy to shape next-gen platform engineering.
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The Five Stages of AI Maturity in Engineering Organizations - Where and Why Teams Get Stuck
Quotient CEO Lizzie Matusov explores why surging enterprise AI spend isn't driving faster software delivery, introducing a 5-stage AI maturity framework to unblock bottlenecks across the SDLC.
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AI Works, Pull Requests Don’t: How AI is Breaking the SDLC and What to Do about it
Michael Webster explains how autonomous "headless" AI agents are flooding pipelines with code. He shares how CircleCI addresses the resulting technical debt and bottlenecked PR reviews.
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Accelerating LLM-Driven Developer Productivity at Zoox
Amit Navindgi explains how Zoox built Cortex, an internal AI platform that streamlines the developer lifecycle by moving beyond the hype to deliver secure, agentic workflows and real-world impact.
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Leadership in AI-Assisted Engineering
Justin Reock explains how to move beyond AI hype using data-driven frameworks. He shares research on the AI learning curve, the Cobra Effect in metrics, and strategies to augment developer throughput.
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Engineering at AI Speed: Lessons from the First Agentically Accelerated Software Project
Adam Wolff shares how the Claude Code team uses their own agentic tools to ship 90% of their production code. He explains why implementation isn't the bottleneck and why feedback loops are everything.
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Agents, Architecture, & Amnesia: Becoming AI-Native without Losing our Minds
Tracy Bannon discusses "Architectural Amnesia" in the age of AI agents. She explains how to avoid reckless speed and manage agentic debt by applying rigorous engineering fundamentals and governance.
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Leveraging Internal Developer Portals to Achieve Strategic Initiatives
Frank Fodera discusses how they introduced an IDP at CarGurus, the key features that contributed to achieving critical mass within their organization, and how they leveraged the IDP.
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