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Apr 15, 2026

A Stack Overflow for Agents? - Peter Wilson

Peter Wilson warns that AI coding assistants will continually hallucinate outdated dependencies without persistent memory. Learn how Mozilla's CQ creates a secure, localized Stack Overflow for your team.

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#1 about 3 min

The challenge of outdated training data in coding agents

How the rapid evolution of frameworks and stale model datasets cause repeated frustrations for developers.

#2 about 3 min

Introducing a shared knowledge layer for AI assistants

Enabling coding assistants to share resolutions for outdated API calls and prevent repetitive errors.

#3 about 2 min

Managing confidence scores and knowledge decay over time

Strategies for generalizing problem resolutions and managing the relevance of saved rules as systems evolve.

#4 about 4 min

Demonstrating outdated version selection in agent workflows

A live example showing an AI assistant incorrectly selecting a deprecated checkout action for a repository pipeline.

#5 about 3 min

Proposing and storing human corrections in local databases

How the system captures a human correction and saves it to a local SQLite instance for future reference.

#6 about 3 min

Applying saved knowledge units to fresh agent sessions

Launching a new prompt to verify the assistant retrieves and applies the newly corrected version rule.

#7 about 2 min

Distinguishing between local team servers and public sharing

Running the knowledge base locally versus utilizing a shared server without leaking sensitive repository data.

#8 about 4 min

Building a public knowledge commons without data scraping

Creating a decentralized, organic source of updated practices to replace stagnating technical Q&A forums.

#9 about 2 min

Mitigating malicious dependencies and knowledge poisoning in datasets

Implementing human-in-the-loop reviews and strict guardrails to prevent harmful code from entering the collective dataset.

#10 about 3 min

Gathering early community feedback and iterative deployment steps

How developers are testing the tool locally and contributing improvements through open-source pull requests.

#11 about 3 min

Applying shared knowledge to web performance and dependencies

Using agent knowledge bases to avoid bloated libraries and embrace modern built-in platform features.

#12 about 3 min

Navigating user backlash against AI in open-source products

The necessity of embracing artificial intelligence openly despite community resistance to browser integrations.

#13 about 7 min

Balancing AI enthusiasm with cynical engineering tool practices

Why developers must treat automated coding tools with a healthy skepticism instead of blind trust.

Matching moments

4:06 min

Real-world case study of AI agents causing quiet instability

Vera Slavnić Vera Slavnić · Europe 2026 Virtual

2:34 min

Balancing developer autonomy with the adoption of coding agents

Clemens Wasner Clemens Wasner +4 · World Congress 2026 Europe

2:06 min

Rethinking team structures around AI agent capabilities

Mike Mike · World Congress 2025

49 sec

Integrating AI agents as collaborative software team members

Mike Mike · World Congress 2025

6:27 min

Using AI copilots to explain and debug legacy codebases

Chris Heilmann +2 · LIVE

3:31 min

Introducing knowledge as a service to contextualize AI workflows

Prashanth Chandrasekar Prashanth Chandrasekar · World Congress 2024

Upcoming sessions on this topic

Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 14:50–15:20

Stage 7

When Agents Became Users: Rearchitecting Identity and Permissions for AI at Scale

Yoav Gal

Product Lead

Yoav Gal
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 1

Closing the autonomous software development loop

Justin Halsall, Scott Voigt

Justin Halsall
Scott Voigt
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 09:00–09:30

Stage 7

AI Agents are Only as Smart as their Context: Building a Real-Time Context Engine at Intuit

Bharat Patel

Lead Software Engineer at Intuit

Bharat Patel
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Stage 7

Responsible AI Architecture with Zero Trust Agents

Ashok Prakash

Staff ML Engineer at Apple

Ashok Prakash
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Stage 5

The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agents

Chris Waterson

CTO and Co-Founder of Guild.ai

Chris Waterson
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 5

From Stateless to Self-Improving: Building Agent Workflows That Get Better Every Session

Laura Salinas

AWS Developer Advocate

Laura Salinas

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