Schedule
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2026-11-16T13:00:00.000Z
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Developer & Workflow Track
2026-11-16T13:00:00.000Z
Registration
2026-11-16T14:15:00.000Z
Opening Ceremony
2026-11-16T14:30:00.000Z
I Built Your Personal Software Ecosystem
Kent C. Dodds
What if you had your own npm registry, your own GitHub, your own cron system, your own email address, and your own database? And what if your favorite AI assistant could build software with all of it on your behalf?That's Kody: a personal assistant platform where every user gets a fully isolated software ecosystem. Your AI writes packages into your own git repos, publishes them to your personal package registry with real versioned imports, schedules your jobs, runs your long-lived services and workflows, receives email at your own address, and stores everything in storage only you can touch.I built this entirely on Cloudflare, because Cloudflare is the only place it could be built. This is a technical deep dive into what happens when you take the newest parts of the developer platform to their limits: sandboxing AI-authored user code with Worker Loaders, per-user git hosting with Artifacts, modeling "one of everything per user" with namespaced Durable Objects, and composing D1, KV, R2, Vectorize, Queues, Workflows, and Email Routing into a true multi-tenant platform.
2026-11-16T14:50:00.000Z
QnA with Kent C. Dodds
2026-11-16T15:05:00.000Z
Teaching AI Agents to Take No for an Answer
Sachin Malhotra
Tell an AI agent “Forbidden,” and instead of stopping, it finds a workaround: scaling services down to zero, deleting resources in smaller batches, and even changing its identity to get a fresh quota.Now imagine giving that same agent a clearer message: “You’ve reached your limit. This action affects 212 resources. Try again in 59 minutes, or ask a human for approval.”Suddenly, it behaves differently. It stops, considers the potential damage, and asks for help instead of finding a way around the rules.This talk explores how we can design safety boundaries that AI agents actually understand and respect.
2026-11-16T15:25:00.000Z
QnA with Sachin Malhotra
2026-11-16T15:40:00.000Z
What Comes After AI Coding
Dominik Kundel
2026-11-16T16:00:00.000Z
QnA with Dominik Kundel
2026-11-16T16:10:00.000Z
Coffee break
2026-11-16T16:30:00.000Z
Automating Quality with AI
Cory House
"AI writes slop" is a common concern. So how can we use LLMs to not just generate good code, but to *ensure* quality? Let's explore how to create effective "guardrails". After this session you'll have a list of novel ideas for improving the quality of your LLM's output.
2026-11-16T16:50:00.000Z
QnA with Cory House
2026-11-16T17:05:00.000Z
Beyond Coding Agents: Making ADLC Work Across Platforms
Mike Grabowski
Writing code is only one part of delivering software. An agentic development loop begins with the intent behind a change and continues until its impact can be observed in production.That means understanding the product and the existing system, deciding what should change, implementing it across shared and platform-specific layers, verifying the result in the running application, releasing it safely, and learning from how the software behaves after deployment. Each step should produce context for the next one.Cross-platform products make this especially difficult. A change that looks correct in the repository can still fail at the boundary between JavaScript and native code, behave differently across platforms, or create problems that only become visible after release.This talk examines what it takes to close the full ADLC loop across mobile, web, and native.
2026-11-16T17:25:00.000Z
QnA with Mike Grabowski
2026-11-16T17:40:00.000Z
rm -rf: Horror Stories From Unsandboxed AI Agents (and How Docker Fixes This)
Rishab Kumar
"I panicked instead of thinking. I destroyed months of your work in seconds." That was a Replit agent after wiping a production database during a code freeze.We’ve entered the "YOLO" era of agentic development. Between July 2025 and early 2026, we saw everything from Claude Code sessions destroying years of student data to supply chain attacks stealing thousands of developer secrets via --dangerously-skip-permissions. Developers are choosing autonomy over security because approving 100 permission prompts an hour isn't a workflow—it’s babysitting.This talk explores why traditional container isolation fails AI agents and how the Docker Sandbox (sbx) model provides a way out.
2026-11-16T18:00:00.000Z
QnA with Rishab Kumar
2026-11-16T18:10:00.000Z
Lunch
2026-11-16T19:00:00.000Z
The Validation-First Loop: How to Ship Production Code with Claude Code
Cole Medin
Coding agents like Claude Code barely write bad code anymore. They write good code that misses the point. The failure moved from code time, where the agent couldn't write the function, to intent time, where it wrote a perfectly fine function for a task that wasn't quite the one in your head. That's misalignment, not incompetence.Our reflex is more review, more tests, more guardrails.
2026-11-16T19:20:00.000Z
QnA with Cole Medin
2026-11-16T19:35:00.000Z
Why We Chose Deterministic Workflows Over Autonomous Agents
Maya Shavin
Autonomous agents are exciting, but not always the right solution. When we build our agent system to migrate complex legacy PDF forms to structured business workflows, an autonomous agent seemed to be the obvious choice.Except it wasn’t. The system outputs were inconsistent, difficult to validate, hard for users to trust, and expensive. To fix this, we redesigned the system around deterministic workflows, using AI only where it adds clear value.In this session, I'll walk through the architectural evolution of our PDF-to-Workflow AI system, the lessons learned from what failed, how it helped to reduce migration time by 90% and the engineering tradeoffs that led us to a more reliable production-ready architecture framework.You'll leave with practical patterns for designing trustworthy AI systems, understanding when deterministic workflows outperform autonomous agents, and building AI products that users are willing to adopt.
2026-11-16T19:55:00.000Z
QnA with Maya Shavin
2026-11-16T20:10:00.000Z
Lightning Talks
• Evals for Coding Agents —
Chris Munn
• From Demo to Production: AI Agents You Can Trust —
Saurabh Dahal
2026-11-16T20:40:00.000Z
Coffee Break
2026-11-16T21:00:00.000Z
Agents in CI Can Fix the Build. Don't Let Them Touch the Pipeline
Vladimir Novick
Every CI vendor now ships auto-fix: a job goes red, an agent patches it, reruns, pushes to your PR. That was the easy part.The hard part is what else the agent can change while it's in there. To the agent, a test file and the workflow file are the same push. Nothing in most setups knows the difference.There's a line between fixing the build and owning the pipeline.
2026-11-16T21:20:00.000Z
QnA with Vladimir Novick
2026-11-16T21:35:00.000Z
Agentic UI Without a Backend LLM
Navya Agarwal
Every MCP tutorial puts the server on a server. They don't have to. If your app already has the data, the auth, and the UI state, why are you copying it to a backend just so an agent can reach it? The future of the web is agentic, and it belongs to the client side.In this talk, I will show how the Prompt API and WebMCP enable a different architecture: the page exposes its own tools, an on-device model discovers and invokes them autonomously.
2026-11-16T21:55:00.000Z
QnA with Navya Agarwal
2026-11-16T22:10:00.000Z
All Ship, No Craft
Haldun Anil
Back in mid-2024, my college roommate kept telling me to try Cursor and I kept saying no. Why would I spend longer coaxing three prompts out of a bot than just writing the code myself? And here's the thing: I was right. For about a quarter.But this isn't really a story about tools.
2026-11-16T22:30:00.000Z
QnA with Haldun Anil
2026-11-16T22:40:00.000Z
Closing Ceremony
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AI-Assisted Dev Track
2026-11-17T19:00:00.000Z
The Context Window Is Not Your Codebase: Enterprise Lessons for Scaling Coding Agents
Kranthi Manchikanti
AI coding agents work impressively when the task fits inside a few files. Enterprise software rarely does.A seemingly simple requirement can cross hundreds of files, shared libraries, APIs, data models, tests, infrastructure, and years of architectural decisions. At that scale, putting more source code into an LLM context window is not the same as giving an agent an understanding of the system.This talk shares lessons from building AI-augmented software development for large enterprise codebases. We’ll examine why file-level retrieval and ever-larger context windows break down, how coding agents can construct a task-specific model of a codebase using structural relationships and iterative exploration, and why planning and verification become more important than code generation as agent autonomy increases.The goal is to move the conversation from “How much code can the model see?” to “How does the agent determine what actually matters for this change?”
2026-11-17T19:20:00.000Z
QnA with Kranthi Manchikanti
2026-11-17T19:35:00.000Z
Talk TBA
2026-11-17T19:55:00.000Z
QnA with TBA
2026-11-17T20:10:00.000Z
Playbook-Based E2E Testing with Playwright CLI and AI Agents
Avindra Fernando
End-to-end tests are powerful, but they’re slow to write and easy to drift. We translate requirements into test code by hand, and over time the intent gets lost. What if behavior could be described in plain language and turned into reliable E2E coverage through a repeatable playbook?As an architect working across teams, I’ve been building structured playbooks that AI agents run through the Playwright CLI. These playbooks take requirements, designs, or existing code and generate natural language-based E2E scenarios tied to real user flows.
2026-11-17T20:30:00.000Z
QnA with Avindra Fernando
2026-11-17T20:40:00.000Z
Coffee Break
2026-11-17T21:00:00.000Z
Your Agent Returned 200. Was It Right?
Nathan Marrs,
Jack Gordley
AI agents can be fast, available, and still completely wrong. Standard application monitoring can show latency and errors, but not whether an answer was useful, a tool call behaved correctly, or a prompt change introduced a regression. This talk shows how to instrument, trace, and evaluate production AI agents using OpenTelemetry and AI Observability.
2026-11-17T21:20:00.000Z
QnA with Nathan Marrs & Jack Gordley
2026-11-17T21:35:00.000Z
Agents, React Native, and My Wife’s Quest to Become a Polyglot
Kaleb McKelvey
My wife’s language-learning journey started with an intense Google Sheet she built from scratch to track her comprehensible input to the minute and forecast her Spanish proficiency.I transformed that spreadsheet into Polyo, a React Native app, shipped to prod in weeks, despite never having built a mobile app before !Claude wrote most of the code (including a full rewrite from my initial vibe coded mess). Through trial and error, I built up a dedicated AI harness repo that could help me ship to production with confidence! This meant having the correct context documentation, automated loops with reusable skills that maintain code quality and verify each change, and production monitoring to find issues early. It also helped to have the best QA tester in the business!This talk covers what my setup looks like and how I shifted from total vibes to a context driven harness to help my wife achieve her quest of becoming a Polyglot!
2026-11-17T21:55:00.000Z
QnA with Kaleb McKelvey
2026-11-17T22:10:00.000Z
When AI Writes 100% of the Code, What Makes a Good Engineer?
Andrea Gao
Organizations like Anthropic claimed 70-90% of their code was written by AI early this year. This aligns with my own experience building an AI startup and what I hear from engineers around me.As coding agents get better, writing code itself is becoming a smaller part of software engineering. So what happens when AI eventually writes nearly all of it? What still makes someone a great engineer?In this talk, I’ll look at this question from both sides: what engineers should become better at, and what companies should look for when hiring them.
2026-11-17T22:30:00.000Z
QnA with Andrea Gao
2026-11-17T22:40:00.000Z
Closing Ceremony