Scaling to Dozens of PRs a Day: Governance and Compliance in the Agentic Era

Are you still writing every line of code yourself? You might be falling behind. Join Karl Weinmeister (Google Cloud Platform DevRel Lead) and Jeff Whelpley (CTO of GetHuman and Google Developer Expert) live from Google Cloud Next '26. In this candid conversation, Jeff explains how he went from being an AI skeptic to doing a total "180" on his development philosophy—and why he’s now forcing his teams to put down the keyboard and pick up the Gemini CLI. Key Discussion Points: The "Vibe Coding" Pile-Up: With AI generating code at lightning speed, how do enterprises handle the massive increase in Pull Requests without sacrificing security or quality? Agentic Governance: Why the role of the Senior Staff Engineer is evolving into a "Manager of Agents," responsible for setting the guardrails and overseeing agentic code reviewers. Burn the Boats: Karl and Jeff share their personal stories of switching to Antigravity and AI-first tools. Their advice? "Commit to one week of only using AI tools to break your old habits." Google Agent Skills: A look at how the newly announced pre-built skills help developers jumpstart production apps while automatically adhering to security best practices. The Intersection of Multimodality: As a leader at GetHuman, Jeff discusses the cutting edge of speech, voice-to-text, and autonomous agents in customer service. Pro-Tips for Dev Teams: Don't Reinvent the Wheel: Use MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and Google Agent Skills to pull in specialized product knowledge and compliance standards. Force Adoption: Sometimes you have to be "heavy-handed" with senior devs who are used to manual coding. Let the results speak for themselves. Scale the "Vegetables": Use agents to automate the "boring but critical" parts of software—testing, documentation, and compliance checks. "A year ago, I thought I'd always be writing code to some degree. Now, I've done a 180. I cannot see myself ever going back, and I think most people who truly try this wi