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I Let Agents Refactor My Codebase for 3 Weeks. Then I Read the Code.

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Lopopolo says code is a liability. Zechner got a standing ovation for "read every fucking line." I was firmly at L — letting coding agents drive a refactoring for weeks, rubber-stamping PRs, trusting the vibes. Then I actually read what they'd built and couldn't explain my own system's contracts. The interfaces weren't wrong. They were plausible. Which is worse. So I took the wheel back. But this isn't a Zechner victory lap — I'm now building better specs and evals specifically so I can move back toward L with confidence. This talk is the honest, in-progress round trip, and a framework for finding where you should sit on the spectrum today.

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AI Red Teaming Agent: Azure AI Foundry — Nagkumar Arkalgud & Keiji Kanazawa, Microsoft (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).

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I Let Agents Refactor My Codebase for 3 Weeks. Then I Read the Code. ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 2:25pm-2:45pm - Track/room: AI Architects: Tokenmaxxing · Leadership 2 - Speaker(s): Keiji Kanazawa - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: AI Architects: Tokenmaxxing - Room: Leadership 2 - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description Lopopolo says code is a liability. Zechner got a standing ovation for "read every fucking line." I was firmly at L — letting coding agents drive a refactoring for weeks, rubber-stamping PRs, trusting the vibes.

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