Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
"What if your coding partner could understand your codebase, recall architectural decisions, and evolve with your workflow?
In this talk, we explore how autonomous AI agents are reshaping software development by acting as intelligent pair programmers. Going beyond GitHub Copilot, these agents can reason across project context, suggest design improvements, surface decisions from team memory, and actively engage in architectural discussions.
I’ll walk through the building blocks—LLMs, memory systems, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and tool orchestration—using real-world prototypes integrated into VSCode.
We'll also address challenges like hallucinations, dependency drift, and trust.
Whether you're an engineer, tech lead, or platform builder, this talk shows how AI-native development is no longer science fiction—it’s your next teammate."
About the speaker:
Satish Kumar Nadarajan, Lead Infrastructure Consultant
Satish Kumar is a Lead Infrastructure Consultant at Thoughtworks, with over 15 years of experience in DevOps, cloud architecture, and platform engineering. He has led modernization and automation programs across Europe and India, influencing app modernization, SRE, and developer enablement at scale. Passionate about developer experience, Satish now focuses on integrating AI agents into engineering workflows to enhance productivity, collaboration, and system resilience.
thoughtworks.com/xconf
"What if your coding partner could understand your codebase, recall architectural decisions, and evolve with your workflow?
In this talk, we explore how autonomous AI agents are reshaping software development by acting as intelligent pair programmers. Going beyond GitHub Copilot, these agents can reason across project context, suggest design improvements, surface decisions from team memory, and actively engage in architectural discussions.
I’ll walk through the building blocks—LLMs, memory systems, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and tool orchestration—using real-world prototypes integrated into VSCode.
We'll also address challenges like hallucinations, dependency drift, and trust.
Whether you're an engineer, tech lead, or platform builder, this talk shows how AI-native development is no longer science fiction—it’s your next teammate."
About the speaker:
Satish Kumar Nadarajan, Lead Infrastructure Consultant
Satish Kumar is a Lead Infrastructure Consultant at Thoughtworks, with over 15 years of experience in DevOps, cloud architecture, and platform engineering. He has led modernization and automation programs across Europe and India, influencing app modernization, SRE, and developer enablement at scale. Passionate about developer experience, Satish now focuses on integrating AI agents into engineering workflows to enhance productivity, collaboration, and system resilience.
thoughtworks.com/xconf
