Gray Factory: Code Review for Agentic Engineers

Code Review quickly becomes the next productivity bottleneck once a team starts using a strong agentic harness, given sufficient tokens. While management dreams of abruptly turning off the lights (the Software Dark Factory), responsible engineers working on complex [legacy] codebases need to "dim the lights" progressively to take responsibility for their system in production confidently.

In this online presentation, Victor will share a series of innovative (higher-level) ways to look at code, aiming to maximize the mental bandwidth we need to quickly understand and confidently approve that 1000+ lines PR that AI submitted to us after 1 hour of work. Many of these techniques use diagrams, visuals, and videos script-produced from the code to help us get a hold of the diff submitted by the coding agent.

Among the ideas:
- Demo: TikTok Video of the new feature
- API visual diff: Swagger, async-api
- Logical Architecture diff: packages & module coupling
- Data Model diff: concepts, classes, tables
- Cyclomatic complexity per entry point
- Logging vs Privacy
- Code City 3D: code complexity/coupling visualization + diff
- Acceptance Tests (PO-readable), Semantic Mapped on Requirements
- Sequence Diagrams of Critical Business Flows
- Deployment Architecture: cross-checking via E2E test traces

Come and see the toolset that a Software Craftsman and Architect vibe-coded using >$30K-worth of tokens, following hundreds of hours of training & discussion with bright engineers in 30+ agentified companies. You can get or fork all the tools you'll see under The Unlicense, and vibe-code them further to tailor them to your needs.

Speaker:
With 2 decades of software engineering experience, Victor spent the last 10 years training thousands of developers and architects from 150+ companies. Since early this year, he’s been working hard to help his clients adopt Agentic Engineering (see https://agentic.how), coaching AI Champions, developers, testers, ops people, product owners and managers with practical, actionable advice to kick-start their agentic reconversion. Every year, Victor gives energetic, intense conference talks in which he distills his training sessions. More about him on[ https://victorrentea.ro](https://victorrentea.ro).

After registration, you will receive the Zoom link of the meeting where discussions will take place.

Alternatively, you can join the YouTube live-stream, where it will also remain recorded: TBA