Automate the entire SDLC with AI
A talk with live demos on the developer mindset for the AI era, shipping quality software end to end with AI, and building the automation that runs the whole development cycle for you
- Speaker
- Vivek, the founder of Pilots. Previously at Salesforce (LMTS) and Harness, San Francisco.
- Format
- Talk with live demos. Nothing to install or set up beforehand. Bring a laptop or a notebook to take notes.
- Duration
- 60 minutes
- Audience
- Computer Science students in any year. Students from other relevant programmes are welcome to register.
Abstract
Everyone ships code with AI now, often without reading a line of it. Getting something to run is the easy part. Shipping software that is actually good, built on a clean architecture that scales, planned properly, tested, reviewed, and safe to deploy, is where AI-written code most often falls short.
This talk shows how to ship quality software end to end with AI agents, live on a real full-stack codebase. A real feature goes from an idea to production on stage, and the agent is held to a high standard the whole way, without anyone reading every line it writes.
Along the way it builds the automation that makes this repeatable, so the whole cycle runs without you juggling a dozen tabs and terminals. How that automation is put together, and what keeps quality from slipping when nobody is watching, is shown live and only in the room.
Underneath all of it is a shift in how a developer thinks. When an agent writes the code, the job is no longer typing it, and developers who keep thinking like code writers end up as the bottleneck. The talk reveals the mindset that replaces it, one that blends two roles most developers never get to hold, and shows why it is the difference between shipping fast and shipping well.
Attendees leave with a method they can run on any codebase, and the clarity to keep shipping quality software with AI long after the talk.
What attendees take away
- The mindset shift at the heart of the talk, from writing code to owning what gets built and how it holds together, revealed on the day
- A repeatable method for shipping quality software end to end with AI, from the first idea to production
- A blueprint for the automation that runs the whole cycle to a quality bar, shown end to end in the room
- A way to trust code they did not write themselves, without reading every line of it
- Skills that transfer to whichever codebase, framework, or AI tool they meet in industry, since the cycle is the same everywhere
Speaker bio
Vivek is the founder of Pilots, a cloud run by your AI agent, where you ask your agent and your app goes live. With over a decade in the industry, he was previously a Lead Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce and an engineer at Harness, San Francisco. At Salesforce he worked on Agentforce and was part of the core AI enablement team, running workshops that got developers shipping with AI at speed.