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# AI Won't Fix Your Engineering Culture


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 10, 2026
- **Time:** 12:20–12:50 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100266-ai-won-t-fix-your-engineering-culture)

## Description

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.

## Speaker

### [Julia Kordick](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@julia-kordick)

Senior Software Global Black Belt at Microsoft


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- [What Production Knows: Closing the Loop Between AI Agents and the Systems They Build](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1470-what-production) — May Walter
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- [Production AI Is a Systems Problem: How ML Breaks at Scale and How to Prevent It](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1010-production-ai-is-a) — Elle S
- [Unlocking the AI Black Box: Building Trust in the Era of Agentic Production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1445-unlocking-the-ai) — Jemiah Sius, Harry Kimpel