Developer Experience

The Hidden Cost of AI Coding: Technical Debt You Can’t See

with Maish Saidel-Keesing

Friday 10 July 16:20 – 16:50 Stage 5

About This Session

AI coding tools boost your productivity today, but at what price? This session uncovers the invisible technical debt accumulating in codebases built with AI assistants. Explore how generated code creates maintenance nightmares, why test coverage doesn’t tell the whole story, and what happens when your team can’t explain how their own code works. Learn to spot warning signs early, implement measures that preserve code quality, and build systems you can actually debug.

Topics

AI Coding Assistants
Legacy
Productivity

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Speaker

Maish Saidel-Keesing

Developer Advocate · AWS

Developer Advocate at AWS

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Maish Saidel-Keesing is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS. He's been working in tech for over 20 years, and if there's one thing that's been consistent throughout his career, it's this: if something can be automated, it should be. He's an automation junkie. Always has been. He helps developers build in the cloud. Not by talking at them, but by building with them. He live-codes at meetups. He writes. He speaks. He creates. He's got a blog with over 700 posts because he genuinely believes that when you share what you've learned, everybody wins. What gets him excited right now is the intersection of GenAI and developer workflows. Not the hype. The practical stuff. How do you actually use these tools to ship faster, automate your infrastructure, and focus on the code that matters? That's what he helps people figure out. He works with everyone from students writing their first lines of code to senior engineers architecting complex distributed systems. Dev communities. Academic institutions. Because making cutting-edge tools accessible to everyone is the whole point. His mission is simple. Equip developers with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to build anything they can imagine in the cloud.