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Discover how Self-Contained Systems bundle UI, logic, and data to create resilient, autonomous, AI-ready architectures. - **Speakers:** Simon Martinelli - **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe - **Published:** July 9, 2026 - **Duration:** 14:08 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100009-goodbye-microservices-hello-self-contained-systems) ### You Can't Automate Trust — The Future of Recruiting is Still Human AI is accelerating hiring, but destroying candidate trust in the process. Discover why the ultimate competitive advantage in talent acquisition relies on human empathy, not algorithms. - **Speakers:** Mahmoud Aly - **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe - **Published:** July 9, 2026 - **Duration:** 20:59 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100008-you-can-t-automate-trust-the-future-of-recruiting-is-still-human) ### Your Tests Are Lying to You: Let AI Expose What You Missed Are your AI-generated tests creating a dangerous false sense of security? Discover how specification-driven prompting and mutation testing expose the critical business logic your automated suites missed. - **Speakers:** Maish Saidel-Keesing - **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe - **Published:** July 9, 2026 - **Duration:** 26:12 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100007-your-tests-are-lying-to-you-let-ai-expose-what-you-missed) ### You Will Migrate Eventually: A developer approach to technology adoption Technical debt is a high-interest loan drawn for execution speed, not an engineering failure. Discover how ING's phase-based tech adoption model scales backend architecture without drowning in legacy code. - **Speakers:** Luisa Rink, Wouter Ligtenberg - **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe - **Published:** July 9, 2026 - **Duration:** 24:46 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100006-you-will-migrate-eventually-a-developer-approach-to-technology-adoption) ### The R in RAG: Why retrieval is often the weakest link (and how to fix it) Why is your RAG application failing on domain-specific queries? Discover how to fix architectural retrieval flaws and fine-tune embedding models in under a minute. - **Speakers:** Tomek Porożyński - **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe - **Published:** July 9, 2026 - **Duration:** 28:22 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100005-the-r-in-rag-why-retrieval-is-often-the-weakest-link-and-how-to-fix-it) ### The AI-Native Engineering Org: What’s Real, What’s Hype, What’s Next AI accelerates coding, but what happens when autonomous agents confidently build the wrong thing? Discover why alignment is the new bottleneck in AI-native engineering. - **Speakers:** Taroon Mandhana, Sebastian Kister - **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe - **Published:** July 9, 2026 - **Duration:** 28:33 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100004-the-ai-native-engineering-org-what-s-real-what-s-hype-what-s-next) ### Designing UX for SRE Agents in High-Stakes Incidents Why force SREs to navigate conversational mazes during 3 AM system crashes? Discover how the un-shell pattern transforms generative AI into trusted, structural UIs for high-stakes incidents. - **Speakers:** Osmar Matos - **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe - **Published:** July 9, 2026 - **Duration:** 7:27 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100003-designing-ux-for-sre-agents-in-high-stakes-incidents) ### The New Financial Stack: AI, Agents and Trust Finance is shifting to machine-to-machine commerce powered by autonomous AI agents. How can leadership balance these probabilistic models with the strict deterministic execution required for absolute trust? - **Speakers:** Annabella Bassler, Daniele Tonella, Peter Bakenecker, Klaus Fiala - **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe - **Published:** July 9, 2026 - **Duration:** 28:29 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100002-the-new-financial-stack-ai-agents-and-trust) ### The Agentic Assembly Line Thomas Dohmke declares traditional software development is cracking under the weight of AI coding agents. Learn how the Agentic Assembly Line ends YOLO merges by verifying intent over syntax. - **Speakers:** Thomas Dohmke - **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe - **Published:** July 9, 2026 - **Duration:** 35:44 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100001-the-agentic-assembly-line) ### Official Opening of WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 AI is no longer just an experiment. Autonomous agents are rewriting the software engineering playbook. Discover how to master real-world production at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026. - **Speakers:** General Program - **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe - **Published:** July 9, 2026 - **Duration:** 11:24 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100000-official-opening-of-wearedevelopers-world-congress-2026)