Why Your Agentic PR Never Gets Approved—Going from Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
You can write 100% of your code with AI, and only be 15% more productive. Want to know why? Solving the problem of moving faster as an engineer is about way more than code. You design, you problem solve, you discuss and communicate, you test, you shepherd the PR through review, you deploy, and you observe. So why are you being told you should be 10x faster now that AI can write code? David will discuss practical solutions for safely accelerating your entire workflow with AI. He will look at how to collaborate with PM, how to use AI planning, how to ensure validations are solid and builds are green, and most importantly, how to help your teams unblock those insane PR times. David will walk through practical lessons learned at Tricentis, examine real examples of valuable code that got stuck in the process due to a lack of certainty, and discover how to unblock AI engineering by remembering the fundamentals of good software architecture, among other actions.
David Colwell is the Vice President of AI Product and Research at Tricentis. David has been working in the field of AI for the last 8 years and created the AI team at Tricentis. A startup engineer and QE leader by trade, David has been working to enable software teams to move faster with AI since the days of convolutional neural networks. In his current role, David runs product strategy and delivery across a portfolio of AI products, and co-sponsors the internal AI acceleration programs with his engineering partners in crime.