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17-18 September | Amsterdam, Netherlands
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IMPORTANT NOTE: Timing of sessions and room locations are subject to change.
Friday September 18, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 CEST
Running 4 to 8 parallel agent coding sessions sounds like a superpower. It nearly broke me.

I was spending more time switching context to check what each agent had done than I would have spent writing the code myself.

Manual testing, staging deployments, code reviews just to understand what the agent had built: I had become the bottleneck.
The agents were fast. I wasn't.

This talk is about how our team redesigned the workflow around one principle: the agent should be able to prove its own work. That means agents that deploy themselves, run their own test suites, watch CI and fix failures, and produce PRs with enough evidence that a reviewer can approve with confidence, without reading every line.
I'll share what it concretely took to get there, and where humans still need to stay in the loop and why.
Speakers
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Vincent Ysmal

Senior Software Engineer, Datadog
I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Datadog, working on AI-powered developer tooling. Before that, four years leading R&D at IQVIA France, and two decades building platforms at startups across fintech and insurtech.
I've been obsessed with developer workflows since long before AI made them interesting, and I'm currently focused on one question: how do you get out of your agent's way... Read More →
Friday September 18, 2026 11:30 - 11:55 CEST
G102 + G103 (Level 1)

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