World Congress 2026 North America • Sep 25, 2026 • Session details

Performance Engineering in the Age of AI

Frederic Branczyk

Can AI autonomously refactor your inefficient production code? Discover how pairing continuous profiling with LLMs creates self-optimizing software factories that drastically cut cloud infrastructure costs.

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3:22 min

Integrating artificial intelligence and performance benchmarking

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Challenges with manual profiling and AI-generated code

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Integrating AI into web performance engineering workflows

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Shifting developer workloads and realistic AI productivity gains

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Achieving complete visibility into engineering performance and return

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Scaling engineering teams and identifying evolving delivery bottlenecks

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