AI Dev 26 x SF | Barun Singh & Kennith Jackson; The Hidden Cost of AI Velocity and AI Agents

AI coding agents have improved productivity while simultaneously putting engineers under pressure to do more, faster. But what's the cost that no one is talking about? Technical debt, 1000 lines of AI-produced code when 200 would do, and teams losing the ability to learn, to make the right call, and to reason as fast as the new systems that AI is creating. Shipping worse code with agents is a choice. We can instead choose to ship better code. How can developers evolve to make agentic work for them? Discipline. Self-awareness. Don't ship what you don't understand, and implement processes and systems to keep a human in the loop in ways that create not just more, but the most optimal product. In this session, Barun Singh, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Andela, home of a 150,000-strong tech talent marketplace, and Kennith Jackson, Andela's SVP, AI Solutions & Operations, will speak to challenges and opportunities facing developers and how they can become agentic engineers to deliver best-in-class products at pace.