---
title: "Agents Don't Have Coworkers, They Have Hostages"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-06-29"
time: "11:40am-12:00pm"
track: "Expo Stage 3 SW"
room: "Expo Stage 3 SW"
speakers: ["Gabriel Martinez"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: ""
scheduleRoom: "Expo Stage 3 SW"
scheduleLabels: ["Expo Stage 3 SW", "session", "confirmed"]
---
# Agents Don't Have Coworkers, They Have Hostages

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 11:40am-12:00pm
- Track/room: track TBD · Expo Stage 3 SW
- Speaker(s): Gabriel Martinez
- Session type/status: session · confirmed

- Track: track TBD
- Room: Expo Stage 3 SW
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
Modern coding workflows are rife with vibe slop. As organizations scale, proper roles and governance systems must be well-defined to ensure a high standard of quality. How do world-class teams scale quality in a world full of slop?

## Media Evidence
No related AI Engineer channel video found yet.

## Evidence Graph
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### Media Signals
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### Agent Reading Notes
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## Transcript Status
No official session recording transcript was found by exact title match on the AI Engineer YouTube channel during this run.

## People
- [[gabriel-martinez]]

## Notes
- Pending transcript synthesis when an official recording or confirmed matching video is available.

## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# Agents Don't Have Coworkers, They Have Hostages ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 11:40am-12:00pm - Track/room: track TBD · Expo Stage 3 SW - Speaker(s): Gabriel Martinez - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: track TBD - Room: Expo Stage 3 SW - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description Modern coding workflows are rife with vibe slop. As organizations scale, proper roles and governance systems must be well-defined to ensure a high standard of quality. How do world-class teams scale quality in a world full of slop? ## Media Evidence No related AI Engineer channel video found yet.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[gabriel-martinez|Gabriel Martinez]] — Engineering Manager at [[g2i|G2i]].

### Topics Covered
- Topic links are pending transcript-backed classification.

### Derived Links And Source Material

### Novel Concepts / Clever Methods
- No highlighted novel concept has been detected yet.

### Evidence Boundary
This synthesis is based on the official schedule and linked source pages. It should be revisited when exact session recordings or transcript-backed secondary sources are available.