Benchmarking Coding Agents on New vs Legacy Code bases
Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 12:05pm-12:25pm
- Track/room: Agentic Engineering · Track 8
- Speaker(s): Denys Linkov
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
- Track: Agentic Engineering
- Room: Track 8
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed
Session Description
You have an old code base with 100,000s of lines of code, should you let an AI Agent refactor or do you wait until you have a cleaner setup? Last year we refactored a number of code bases and ran evaluations on how well different models, harnesses and rule sets affected multiple versions of the code base. This talk will feature specific code examples as well as a broader set of evals.
Media Evidence
Structuring a modern AI team — Denys Linkov, Wisedocs (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).
- Source video:
youtube-SbUxRluVRwk - Slide deck: Dense Slides: Structuring a modern AI team — Denys Linkov, Wisedocs — 1 visible slide image(s); 1 HTML recreation(s).
- Additional slide evidence: Slides: Structuring a modern AI team — Denys Linkov, Wisedocs, Reconstructed Slides: Structuring a modern AI team — Denys Linkov, Wisedocs
- Slide-derived themes for
youtube-SbUxRluVRwk: technology, company, solution, services, enabled, tech.
Evidence Graph
This evidence graph is generated from currently linked source material: official schedule text, related video pages, cached transcripts, visible slide text, dense/reconstructed slide pages, and AI slide-classification audits.
Media Signals
youtube-SbUxRluVRwk— 1 slide-derived text signals- Slide-derived themes for
youtube-SbUxRluVRwk: technology, company, solution, services, enabled, tech. - Evidence links for
youtube-SbUxRluVRwk: youtube SbUxRluVRwk, youtube SbUxRluVRwk slides, youtube SbUxRluVRwk dense slides, youtube SbUxRluVRwk reconstructed slides
Agent Reading Notes
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Transcript Status
Related video transcript availability: English auto-captions. Treat this as supporting context, not a recording of this exact scheduled session unless later confirmed. Not fetched yet.
People
Supporting Slides
- youtube SbUxRluVRwk slides — extracted from the related public AI Engineer video.
Slide Evidence
- Slide-only cropped deck: youtube SbUxRluVRwk dense slides (1 viable slide images).
- Related slide/OCR pages:
- youtube SbUxRluVRwk dense slides
- youtube SbUxRluVRwk reconstructed slides
- youtube SbUxRluVRwk slides
- Slide-derived terms:
hiring,awws,graphite,windsurf,mongobb,mdaily,augment,code,workos,expectations,explain,modern,team,themes,olean,evolution,generalist,question
Attendance Visibility
No high-confidence attendance icon signal is shown for this talk. The sampled video evidence was either low confidence, source-proxy-only, or did not expose a clear audience view.
Synthesis
Synthesized Breakdown
Benchmarking Coding Agents on New vs Legacy Code bases ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 12:05pm-12:25pm - Track/room: Agentic Engineering · Track 8 - Speaker(s): Denys Linkov - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: Agentic Engineering - Room: Track 8 - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description You have an old code base with 100,000s of lines of code, should you let an AI Agent refactor or do you wait until you have a cleaner setup? Last year we refactored a number of code bases and ran evaluations on how well different models, harnesses and rule sets affected multiple versions of the code base. This talk will feature specific code examples as well as a broader set of evals. ## Media Evidence Structuring a modern AI team — Denys Linkov, Wisedocs (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).
Speaker And Company Context
- Denys Linkov — Head of ML at Wisedocs.
Topics Covered
Derived Links And Source Material
- youtube SbUxRluVRwk — related YouTube source page.
- youtube SbUxRluVRwk slides — slide evidence.
- youtube SbUxRluVRwk reconstructed slides — slide evidence.
- youtube SbUxRluVRwk dense slides — slide evidence.
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.