AI Coding & Cloud

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6:15-7:30: Power and Perils of AI Aided Coding
AI coding uses intuition, assistance, or rapid iteration to build software without traditional design formality. It can feel liberating and fast, but it comes with hidden risks. This session takes a closer look at both the advantages and pitfalls of this emerging approach.

Attendees will explore when ai coding can boost creativity, collaboration, and speed, and when it can lead to fragile, hard-to-maintain systems. Through practical examples and guidelines, you will learn how to harness its strengths while avoiding the traps that undermine quality and long-term sustainability.

About
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., an instructional professor at the University of Houston, and creator of dev2next conference.

He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.

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5:30-6:00: Food, Soda, and Networking

6:00-6:15: Announcements & Raffles!

6:15-7:30: Your Code Isn’t AI-Ready (Yet): Fixing the Complexity That Breaks AI Agents

AI agents don’t struggle with syntax. They struggle with missing intent, non-expressive code, and surprising dependencies. Historically, we were supposed to write code for human readers, code that fits our cognitive limits and supports collaboration. In reality, much of our industry has fallen short.

That comes back to bite us.

When AI agents enter the development loop, they amplify those same problems. Where a human developer will ask questions and seek clarification, an AI often proceeds without it, making its best guess from patterns in code that was never designed to be unambiguous.

Code that is hard for humans to understand becomes unreliable for AI.

In this talk, Adam Tornhill shows how to turn that around. You’ll learn the key principles behind AI-friendly code and apply practical AI-assisted refactoring patterns that make those principles concrete. The focus is not on generating more code, but on improving the code you already have so AI becomes reliable instead of risky. All recommendations are grounded in AI research and cognitive psychology.

About
Adam Tornhill, Founder of CodeScene & Author of "Your Code as a Crime Scene", is a programmer who combines degrees in engineering and psychology. He’s the founder of CodeScene where he designs tools for code analysis. Adam is also the author of multiple technical books, including the best selling Your Code as a Crime Scene and Software Design X-Rays. Adam’s other interests include modern history, music, retro computing, and martial arts.

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