Building an AI dev team that thinks, builds, and debugs alongside humans

The early days of AI coding was discovering just how fast AI can write a whole lot of questionable code. Sometimes useful, sometimes more work than it’s worth. In this session, we’ll look at how modern agents like Kilo Code act like an enthusiastic, well-read junior developer who supports your human engineers from planning through to debugging.

In 45 minutes, we’ll cover how engineering managers are bringing AI into their teams’ workflows in a way that improves speed and quality without creating hours of extra cleanup.

You’ll get:

• A framework for deciding when AI should design, write or fix code
• Examples of teams using AI to boost velocity while keeping quality high
• A playbook for integrating AI coding modes – architecting, developing, debugging – while maintaining security and control.

About the speaker: Brendan O'Leary is a Developer Relations Engineer at Kilo Code. He spends his time connecting with developers, contributing to open source projects, and sharing his thoughts on cutting-edge technologies on conference panels, meetups, in contributed articles and on blogs.