Lawrence Jones from Incident.io explains why their team needed AI to debug their complex AI SRE product. He details three powerful patterns: a CLI for agents to manage large evaluation files, serializing debug UIs into downloadable file systems for agent-based tracing, and multi-agent pipelines for fleet-scale failure analysis.
Mike Christensen from Ably critiques the standard HTTP streaming (SSE) approach for AI chat applications, highlighting its fragility and limitations. He introduces the "durable session" pattern, a persistent, shared resource built on pub/sub principles, to create resilient, multi-device AI experiences with live, bidirectional control.
Chris Lovejoy argues that winning in vertical AI is an organizational challenge, not just a technical one. He introduces a framework of three roles for domain experts—Oracle, Evaluator, and Architect—to effectively embed their knowledge into AI products, illustrated with case studies from companies like Granola and Anterior.
Stephen Chin of Neo4j argues that traditional RAG is insufficient because AI agents lose the reasoning behind past decisions. He introduces Context Graphs as a solution to capture the 'why' behind decisions, creating a queryable system of precedent that provides grounded, explainable, and auditable results.
A case study from PFF reveals how a two-engineer team, by leveraging AI agents, achieved a 25x increase in deployment frequency and 10x the output of a ten-engineer team. CTO Mike Spitz explains their core principle: shifting focus from making engineers faster to making AI agents faster. This talk deconstructs the resulting transformation, which eliminated traditional agile ceremonies like stand-ups and sprint planning in favor of an automated, spec-to-PR workflow, redefining the roles of engineers and processes in a modern software organization.
Pedro Rodrigues from Supabase shares key lessons from building an agent skill to work with Postgres and Supabase. He explains why critical security rules must go in the main skill file, the importance of pointing to living documentation, and how providing opinionated workflow guidance closes the reliability gap for agents in production systems.