What Production Knows: Closing the Loop Between AI Agents and the Systems They Build
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May Walter
Hud
Co-founder and CTO
AI Won't Fix Your Engineering Culture
July 10, 2026
12:20
–
12:50
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30
min
Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft
What this session covers
AI doesn’t fix broken systems. It amplifies them. And right now, most organizations are learning that the hard way. This talk reframes the conversation: engineering culture is the real constraint, not tooling. DevEx is the signal. Platform Engineering is the lever. You need both before humans and agents can operate effectively. Agentic workflows don’t wait for you to get your house in order. They expose weak foundations at speed and scale. Strong DevEx and platform capabilities become a multiplier. Everything else just gets louder.
World Congress 2026 Europe
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