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

AI Won't Fix Your Engineering Culture

Julia Kordick

Developers spend 60% of their time battling infrastructure, not writing code. Throwing AI at a broken system won't fix your engineering culture, but rapidly accelerates your technical debt.

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