Ideas: slow down to speed up when working with AI agents

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.

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…