This talk takes Steve Yegge's "continuous thunderdome" as a starting point and shows how to make CI/CD work at planet scale, and how to solve the perennial problem that nobody wants to fix the build.
This talk will dig into the technical and social details of Imprint's migration to safely transition from manual deploys to continuous deployment with substantial agent-written PRs in under six months.
AI agents may be making code faster to write, but they’re also shifting the bottleneck further down the delivery process. This talk explores why proven practices like progressive rollout, observability, feature flags, and automated rollback are becoming essential for teams adopting AI at scale.
In this talk, Justin Reock, Deputy CTO at DX, will share a data-driven “state of the union” on AI in engineering, grounded in both quantitative data from thousands of developers and on-the-ground observations.
How to keep AI in the workflow without losing the apprenticeship: three exercises that rebuild debugging, explanation, and critical thinking when polished output hides shallow understanding.
The communication habits that place disproportionate cognitive load on neurodivergent engineers, and a one-sprint audit with three specific rewrites you can deploy immediately.
Why people don't build connection to their work from what you say at all-hands, and how to translate what matters into something that sticks week to week.
The business fundamentals that help engineering leaders understand the financial and commercial forces that shape their work, and engage as partners rather than order-takers.
The specific leadership moves that work when you're managing a crisis with no prior relationships, no system context, and a hard deadline, and why crisis leadership requires a different playbook entirely.