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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

Best Practices for AI-Assisted Development of Distributed Systems

Przemysław Ładyński

AI coding tools default to generic architectures for distributed systems. Stop software typing and master engineering coordination by encoding strict architectural rules directly into your codebase.

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Overcoming challenges in AI-assisted distributed system development

Generating complex distributed systems requires providing AI with explicit architectural guidance rather than relying on basic prompts.

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Adapting the software engineering role for AI collaboration

As AI coding usage increases, engineers must transition from writing code to coordinating and supervising intelligent agents.

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Preventing generalized code outputs relying on internet averages

Without strict architectural guidance, AI defaults to generating average, unstructured code based on generalized training patterns.

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Defining repository boundaries using policies, skills, and specs

Supplying explicit rules and technical definitions within a codebase ensures AI correctly follows existing architectural constraints.

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Validating code generation with evals, datasets, and graders

Constructing repeatable regression tests for AI guarantees that agent-generated workflows meet organizational standards during pull requests.

#6 about 2 min

Delegating development tasks through progressive levels of autonomy

Workflows to process engineering tasks range from basic prompting to fully autonomous agents executing continuous integration checks in cloud environments.

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Steering statistical machine learning models toward custom architectures

Treating AI as an automated team requires mapping deep programmatic strategy into actionable repository parameters to avoid hallucinated infrastructure.

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Applying structural rules to restrict standard project generation

Embedding strict coding rules curtails unwanted dependencies and forces code generation pipelines to align with secure, predefined technical boundaries.

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Orchestrating tool skills for diagrams and structured features

Providing models with specialized tooling ensures architecture diagrams and markdown documentation are accurately generated and synced with internal files.

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Selecting optimized toolchains to improve context token efficiency

Selecting frameworks that utilize minimal boilerplate immediately lowers AI operational costs and reserves the restricted prompt context window.

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Competing fundamentally through proficient AI orchestration and coordination

Maintaining continuous operational advantages involves meticulously minimizing generative waste to rapidly output precise, scalable cloud infrastructure.

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Navigating over-formalization and repository context window thresholds

Grouping microservices into unified monorepos grants intelligent assistants superior programmatic context but requires careful boundaries to prevent excessive codebase scanning and token exhaustion.

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