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Learn to build the rigorous evaluation frameworks and programmatic guardrails required to safely deploy AI-generated code. - **Speakers:** Anurag Goel, Milin Desai, Richard Rizk, Sead Ahmetović, Jared Zoneraich - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 24, 2026 - **Duration:** 35:26 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100548-running-ai-written-software-in-production) ### The Era of Machine-Driven Defense is Here: Headless Security Loris Degioanni warns that human-centric security is a fatal bottleneck. Discover how headless architecture empowers AI agents to fight threats at machine speed, replacing static dashboards with dynamic APIs. - **Speakers:** Loris Degioanni - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 24, 2026 - **Duration:** 28:23 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100528-the-era-of-machine-driven-defense-is-here-headless-security) ### Databases in the Agent Era Are AI agents breaking your staging environments? Discover how ephemeral, copy-on-write PostgreSQL branching unlocks safe, isolated sandboxes for autonomous workflows. - **Speakers:** Monica Sarbu - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 24, 2026 - **Duration:** 25:52 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100497-databases-in-the-agent-era) ### Why AI-Written Books Fail – and How We Made Quality Measurable Why do AI-generated books suffer from contextual amnesia? Discover how to make long-form LLM output reliable by governing fast neural generation with strict, deterministic code checks. - **Speakers:** Hannes Steiner, Thomas Neumayer - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 24, 2026 - **Duration:** 28:54 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100474-why-ai-written-books-fail-and-how-we-made-quality-measurable) ### Travel’s AI-Powered Shift: How Expedia Group Is Building in the AI Era Still using AI as just a coding assistant? Expedia Group evolved to purpose-built agentic systems. Learn how they compressed software delivery times by 95 percent. - **Speakers:** Debashis Saha, Julia Elliott - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 24, 2026 - **Duration:** 28:35 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100430-travel-s-ai-powered-shift-how-expedia-group-is-building-in-the-ai-era) ### Beyond the Vibe: Specs, Adversarial Review, and Engineering AI Development that Scales and Ships AI vibe coding builds fragile enterprise software. Learn how explicit domain models and automated adversarial reviews can radically compress sprint cycles and scale your development workflows. - **Speakers:** Ussama Baggili - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 24, 2026 - **Duration:** 25:33 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100409-beyond-the-vibe-specs-adversarial-review-and-engineering-ai-development-that-scales-and-ships) ### When Agents Became Users: Rearchitecting Identity and Permissions for AI at Scale Borrowing human permissions for AI agents destroys enterprise security. Guardrails are just advice, but permissions are physics. Discover why treating agents as first-class users instantly unlocks secure scalability. - **Speakers:** Yoav Gal - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 24, 2026 - **Duration:** 30:01 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100391-when-agents-became-users-rearchitecting-identity-and-permissions-for-ai-at-scale) ### How to generate business value through performance optimizations Do you know the exact millisecond your users lose patience and abandon your app? Learn to map abandonment curves and align P90 latency goals directly with user retention. - **Speakers:** Nikolai Sidiropulo - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 24, 2026 - **Duration:** 19:58 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100374-how-to-generate-business-value-through-performance-optimizations) ### In-Person by Default: Principles & Practices for Building Developer Meetups Are virtual events leaving developers isolated? Learn how to cure tech loneliness and scale thriving, in-person developer meetups on a micro-budget. - **Speakers:** Steve Chen - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 24, 2026 - **Duration:** 8:25 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100577-in-person-by-default-principles-practices-for-building-developer-meetups) ### Agentic commerce's dirty little secret, and what to do about it. Why is high-intent AI traffic bouncing off your legacy keyword search? Discover how developers can build semantic discovery systems to rescue conversions and capture massive greenfield revenue. - **Speakers:** Joe Monastiero - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 24, 2026 - **Duration:** 12:25 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100589-agentic-commerce-s-dirty-little-secret-and-what-to-do-about-it) ### AI Governance & Compliance: Who Is Responsible When the Bots Start Acting? When your AI agents make unauthorized promises, your enterprise pays the price. Discover why retroactive audits are dead and how to build pre-send compliance using localized SLMs. - **Speakers:** Kumesh Aroomoogan, Paul Anthony Claxton, Eric Osiakwan - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 24, 2026 - **Duration:** 29:29 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100606-ai-governance-compliance-who-is-responsible-when-the-bots-start-acting) ### Anatomy of an AI Request: Where Latency and Cost Are Really Born Running pre-fill and decode on the same GPU severely bottlenecks your AI throughput. Discover how cache-aware disaggregation and speculative decoding can drastically reduce latency and infrastructure costs. - **Speakers:** Dan Fu - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 24, 2026 - **Duration:** 28:01 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100526-anatomy-of-an-ai-request-where-latency-and-cost-are-really-born) [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/world-congress-2026-north-america?page=15)