Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
There is nothing wrong with the AI, but plenty is wrong with how it's used. Many got drunk on the speed at which an LLM solves just another LeetCode problem, and rushed to ship good-looking, bad-smelling features.
The processes are focused on humans; there is no agent-ready SDLC and no AI manifesto yet. In just a couple of years, we got a flying car but no flying traffic lights. No wonder bug reports are hitting record highs.
This is a talk about what happens when management thinks that just throwing agents to ship production code is a good idea, and what we engineers can do to regain the lost control.
There is nothing wrong with the AI, but plenty is wrong with how it's used. Many got drunk on the speed at which an LLM solves just another LeetCode problem, and rushed to ship good-looking, bad-smelling features.
The processes are focused on humans; there is no agent-ready SDLC and no AI manifesto yet. In just a couple of years, we got a flying car but no flying traffic lights. No wonder bug reports are hitting record highs.
This is a talk about what happens when management thinks that just throwing agents to ship production code is a good idea, and what we engineers can do to regain the lost control.
