# Ideas: slow down to speed up when working with AI agents > Source: > Published: 2026-06-02 16:42:23+00:00 # Ideas: slow down to speed up when working with AI agents ### 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? *Scheduling update: this week, there will be a podcast episode on Wednesday and no The Pulse on Thursday.* I’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). The 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…