Software development lifecycle

Aug 22, 2026

The Agent Behind the Curtain: Building the Oz Cloud Agent Platform — Safia Abdalla, Warp

Safia Abdalla discusses Warp's cloud agent platform, emphasizing its core principle of absorbing complexity from the user. She details features like flexible sandboxes, multi-harness support, and API-driven agent orchestration. The talk highlights how agents manage Warp's open-source repository—from issue triage to PR review—and introduces the "potter's workshop" analogy as a superior model to the "software factory" for modern, human-centric software development.

Aug 09, 2026

Multiplayer agentic engineering — Arjun Singh, Superconductor

Arjun Singh, co-founder of Superconductor, discusses the six crucial lessons learned from integrating AI agents into their software development workflow. He emphasizes the importance of building "multiplayer agentic engineering" systems where human teams and AI agents collaborate seamlessly, focusing on model agnosticism, pervasive agent interfaces, transparent work visibility, automated signal-to-code conversion (like their "meeting bot"), secure isolated cloud environments, and internal code-base benchmarking to optimize cost, quality, and speed.

Jul 28, 2026

AI Agents for Performance: Ship Faster, Pay Less — Rajat Shah, Netflix

Rajat Shah details Netflix's approach to automating performance engineering using AI agents. He describes how an agent can read production profiling data, identify quadratic inefficiencies, propose code fixes, and validate them via canary deployments. The talk highlights the importance of a shared anti-pattern catalog and shifting from reactive bug fixing to proactive prevention by integrating AI early in the development cycle, emphasizing foundational automation and structured autonomy levels.

Jul 18, 2026

Content Is Code - Matt Palmer, Conductor

Matt Palmer discusses how code, empowered by AI, is becoming the fastest and most efficient medium for technical content creation, emphasizing that while code is cheap, structure and conscientiousness are now the most valuable assets for producing high-quality output. He predicts the rise of "content engineers" who leverage declarative pipelines to automate technical communication.

Jun 29, 2026

You Can't Prompt the Room: The Last Skill AI Won't Replace - Balázs Horváth, VisualLabs

AI has shifted the software development bottleneck from coding to defining *what* to build. This talk emphasizes the critical role of human skills in eliciting true requirements and understanding business value, detailing practical tools like story mapping, a 4-question value framework, and the VAD thinking path to ensure valuable AI-driven solutions are built, focusing on impact over mere feature delivery.

Jun 02, 2026

GitHub’s Agent Era: 14x Commits, 200M Developers, Copilot’s Next Act — Kyle Daigle

GitHub COO Kyle Daigle discusses the new era of AI agents from the inside. He covers how he uses AI for leadership, the shift from "mega-skills" to "micro-skills," and how GitHub is navigating a 14x growth in commits. The conversation goes deep on the evolution of Copilot, the future of PRs in an agent-driven world, the challenges of scaling, and Microsoft's vision for an ambient AI operating system.