AI is accelerating everything in our organizations – both good and bad – and at a pace we have never seen before. The highest-performing engineering organizations are now moving 9x faster than the *median* organizations, and that gap is widening. The future is here, but it’s not at all evenly distributed. What in the world are those high-performing organizations doing differently? The basics!

Even with smarter models and agentic loops and eval harnesses, the fundamentals of software itself and the “physics” of systems have not changed. This keynote will discuss:

• Optimizing the “inner loop” for small incremental steps and fast feedback
• Optimizing the “outer loop” for parallelism and flow
• Optimizing the architecture for modularity and decoupling

The professional practice of software is changing before our eyes from craftspersonlike to industrialized, and many of us may feel that absolutely everything we know is in flux. It isn’t!

You will leave with a clear understanding about what has and has not changed, along with concrete steps you and your teams can take next week.