TechTalks Edinburgh #10 – Keeping AI-Written Code Safe to Change

Legacy in Months, Not Years: Keeping AI-Written Code Safe to Change
Dmitriy Fedoryshchev

Hear how to tell whether agent-written code is making a codebase safer or riskier, and how the rules the agent kept breaking became checks it cannot skip, built into Dmitriy's own open-source tools. Lessons from modernising a 600-table, 21 TB legacy core into microservices with a squad that went AI-native under one doctrine: only merge code that can be understood and explained.

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Agenda:

• 6:00pm - 6:30pm - Welcome • grab a drink • take some pizza • have a quick chat
• 6:30pm- 6:40pm - Opening talk
• 6:40pm-7:30pm - Main talk
• 7:30pm-7:45pm - q&a
• 7:45pm-8:00pm - beverages • networking • closing.
• 8:00pm onwards - Afterparty at a nearby pub.

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Speaker Spotlight:

Dmitriy Fedoryshchev – Lead Software Engineer – https://www.linkedin.com/in/dife/

He has worked on projects from startups to enterprises. His latest was modernising a 600-table, 21 TB legacy core into microservices, taking over from four previous attempts, with a squad that became AI-native on a custom multi-agent system under one doctrine: only merge code that can be understood and explained. Over a hundred merged open-source PRs across 20 projects, including Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft.

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Partners:

• CodeBase
• Dougray
• Scottish Technology Club
• Beyond Tech
• Lyxonn

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