AI
AI is an Amplifier: Scale High Performance, Not Dysfunction
Wednesday Mar 18 / 10:35AM GMT
AI adoption in software development is nearly universal, yet the outcomes for teams are highly variable. Why do some organizations see massive productivity gains while others see their delivery stability crash? DORA’s latest research provides a key insight: AI acts as an amplifier.
Nathen Harvey
Lead of DORA and Product Manager @Google Cloud
Rewriting All of Spotify's Code Base, All the Time
Tuesday Mar 17 / 02:45PM GMT
We don't need LLMs to write new code. We need them to clean up the mess we already made.In mature organizations, we have to maintain and migrate the existing codebase. Engineers are constantly balancing new feature development with endless software upkeep.
Jo Kelly-Fenton
Engineer @Spotify
Aleksandar Mitic
Software Engineer @Spotify
Beyond Context Windows: Building Cognitive Memory for AI Agents
Tuesday Mar 17 / 11:45AM GMT
AI agents are rapidly changing how users interact with software, yet most agentic systems today operate with little to no intelligent memory, relying instead on brittle context-window heuristics or short-term state.
Karthik Ramgopal
Distinguished Engineer & Tech Lead of the Product Engineering Team @LinkedIn, 15+ Years of Experience in Full-Stack Software Development