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Now that AI writes the boilerplate, developers are paradoxically left battling only the most grueling, high-stakes problems. - **Speakers:** Simon Willison - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 31:31 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100537-2026-in-llms-so-far) ### Running Operations Without Humans in the Loop Ready to hand production keys over to AI? Learn how to safely automate IT operations and mitigate risk by shifting to a 'human on the loop' model. - **Speakers:** Edward Aryee, Ryan Ries, Yaron Schneider, Chris Hallenbeck, Floriane Gramlich - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 32:31 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100595-running-operations-without-humans-in-the-loop) ### Beyond the Code: Human-AI Synergies in Product Development Generative AI excels at building artifacts, but artifacts do not equal outcomes. The new bottleneck in product development is decision-making. Discover how human-AI synergy drives true business impact. - **Speakers:** Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 17:43 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100559-beyond-the-code-human-ai-synergies-in-product-development) ### Honey, look! I vibe-coded an OS! Ian Smith generated a complete Go operating system with zero manual coding. Discover how his SlopStop framework prevents AI-generated garbage while creating a crisis for junior developers. - **Speakers:** Ian Smith - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 30:40 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100514-honey-look-i-vibe-coded-an-os) ### The Productivity Illusion: What AI Really Changed for Developers AI doesn't eliminate engineering bottlenecks; it shifts them from writing to reviewing. Uncover the hidden cognitive costs of AI-generated code. Redesign your workflows for true productivity. - **Speakers:** Fatih Kadir Akın - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 24:28 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100493-the-productivity-illusion-what-ai-really-changed-for-developers) ### Your Evals Passed. Your Agent Just Emptied a Database. Offline evaluations won't stop a deployed AI agent from hallucinating tool calls and corrupting production data. Learn how runtime verification layers can keep your databases safe. - **Speakers:** Tejas Pravinbhai Patel - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 21:37 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100463-your-evals-passed-your-agent-just-emptied-a-database) ### Engineering Moneyball: How We Benchmarked Google vs Meta Top AI engineers now deliver 94x more output, finishing entire sprints in an afternoon. Discover why the new software bottleneck has shifted from coding speed to your product roadmap. - **Speakers:** Jirka Bachel - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 17:54 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100443-engineering-moneyball-how-we-benchmarked-google-vs-meta) ### The Things Your AI Isn't Telling You Are your new AI features secretly exposing critical infrastructure? Watch live demonstrations of prompt injections executing unauthorized SQL queries. Learn to secure your pipelines against novel attack vectors. - **Speakers:** Desmond Lamptey - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 25:06 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100427-the-things-your-ai-isn-t-telling-you) ### Proactive AI That Doesn’t Annoy Users: Building Context-Aware Notification Systems Is your proactive AI annoying users? Build a context-aware notification architecture that prioritizes trust over volume. Learn why suppressing an alert is often your system's best decision. - **Speakers:** Raju Dandigam Dandigam - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 25:08 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100404-proactive-ai-that-doesn-t-annoy-users-building-context-aware-notification-systems) ### You Can’t Rerun Sunlight: Designing ML Data Architectures for Physical AI How do you debug physical AI when you cannot recompute reality? Learn why shifting to knowledge reproducibility prevents your autonomous agents from hallucinating false model flaws. - **Speakers:** An Phan - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 25:42 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100389-you-can-t-rerun-sunlight-designing-ml-data-architectures-for-physical-ai) ### The Future Is Calling But You're Busy Prompting Stop fighting to be the human in the loop and start engineering the loop. Discover how to architect autonomous multi-agent systems using foundational software engineering principles. - **Speakers:** Angie Jones - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 31:55 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100376-the-future-is-calling-but-you-re-busy-prompting) ### 12 Names for the Same Thing: Why Developer Experience Can't Grow Without a Common Language In 1904, incompatible fire hoses fueled the Baltimore fire disaster. Today, 12 names for developer enablement are stalling engineering productivity. Unite under Developer Experience. - **Speakers:** Artem Mukhin - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 11:03 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100564-12-names-for-the-same-thing-why-developer-experience-can-t-grow-without-a-common-language) [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/world-congress-2026-north-america?page=2)