World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

Agents for the Sake of Happiness

AI isn't replacing software engineers; it's elevating them to conductors. Discover how synchronous and background coding agents eliminate boilerplate toil, maximizing your creative flow and developer happiness.

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1:55 min

Shifting developer workloads and realistic AI productivity gains

Julia Kordick

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2:34 min

Balancing developer autonomy with the adoption of coding agents

Clemens Wasner

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7:57 min

The evolving role of human developers managing agents

Han Wang

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3:23 min

Integrating intent-based code generation and agent implementation

1:48 min

The evolving role of software engineers alongside agents

David Soria Parra

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1:54 min

Evolving from coding assistants to agentic software development

Debashis Saha

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