{"slug": "ideas-slow-down-to-speed-up-when-working-with-ai-agents", "title": "Ideas: slow down to speed up when working with AI agents", "summary": "Developers are generating twice as much code as six months ago, raising concerns about quality, reliability, and tech debt. A rational fix exists, but few are acting on it, as discussed in a keynote titled 'Slow down to speed up' at Craft Conference in Budapest.", "body_md": "# Ideas: slow down to speed up when working with AI agents\n\n### Devs are generating twice as much code (or more) than just 6 months ago, which is a problem for quality, reliability, and tech debt. A rational fix is available for these, but who’s acting rationally?\n\n*Scheduling update: this week, there will be a podcast episode on Wednesday and no The Pulse on Thursday.*\n\nI’m in Budapest, Hungary, this week, for Craft Conference, where I’ll be giving a keynote presentation alongside other speakers, including software engineering legend Kent Beck, who’s been [on the podcast](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/tdd-ai-agents-and-coding-with-kent), Hillel Wayne, a formal methods expert and the author of ‘[Logic for Programmers](https://leanpub.com/logic)’, and Titus Winters, lead author of [Software Engineering at Google](https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book).\n\nThe title of my keynote is* “Slow down to speed up”, *and I’ve been thinking about this topic a lot recently. Here are some things I’ve been seeing that I feel are relevant…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ideas-slow-down-to-speed-up-when-working-with-ai-agents", "canonical_source": "https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ideas-slow-down-to-speed-up-when", "published_at": "2026-06-02 16:42:23+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-16 17:34:26.058395+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Kent Beck", "Hillel Wayne", "Titus Winters", "Craft Conference"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ideas-slow-down-to-speed-up-when-working-with-ai-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ideas-slow-down-to-speed-up-when-working-with-ai-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ideas-slow-down-to-speed-up-when-working-with-ai-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ideas-slow-down-to-speed-up-when-working-with-ai-agents.jsonld"}}