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AI coding agents gain autonomy in stages. At first they’re autocomplete, and you write every line. Then they take on small tasks, then they pair with you in real time. Eventually they write most of the code while you review every change. That’s where most teams are today. It’s faster, but now the reviewer is the bottleneck: the agent produces changes far quicker than anyone can read them. Giving it more autonomy means reading less, and that only works if you can trust what you skip.
Through two software factories we’ve built, we’ll show how we helped our agents earn that trust, and what still stands in the way of letting them run entirely on their own.
This session will explore:
- How an AI agent’s autonomy grows in stages, and how the developer’s role changes at each one.
- How a config-driven pipeline migrates a large Angular app to React, with a person involved only at the start and at merge.
- How a code-driven, always-on agent takes issues from any backlog to a draft pull request.
- What makes an agent’s output trustworthy: tests it didn’t write, checks it can’t reach, and evidence a reviewer can scan.
- What breaks when the agent leaves your laptop and runs without you: secrets, guardrails, headless browsers, logins and cost.
Meet the Speakers
Karun Japhet is a technology leader at Sahaj Software with extensive experience in delivering enterprise-grade solutions across industries like ad-tech, finance, telecommunications, energy, and gaming. Karun provides strategic guidance to clients on architecture and technology roadmaps, enabling them to build robust platforms and products, applying AI thoughtfully across core engineering workflows — far beyond code generation alone. Karun is passionate about bringing clarity to modern engineering practices — spanning event-driven and serverless architectures, machine learning for fraud detection, large-scale data engineering for petabyte-scale workloads, and practical AI for real-world software development.
Utkarsh Singh is a full-stack software engineer with over three years of experience building scalable, fault-tolerant systems across backend, cloud and frontend. More recently, he has been building software factories that let AI agents take on more of the delivery work. He is especially interested in how teams can give agents more autonomy while maintaining high standards of software quality and engineering practice.
Event Details
🗓️ Thursday 19 November 2026
🕕 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM BST
📍 Sahaj Software, Creo Westgate House, 9 Holborn, London EC1N 2LL
🎤 One engaging talk, followed by Q&A
🤝 Networking with fellow engineers and tech enthusiasts
🍕 Free pizza and drinks
Agenda
- 06:00 PM – 06:30 PM – Snacks & Networking
- 06:30 PM – 07:30 PM – Talk
- 07:30 PM – 08:00 PM – Q&A
👀 Who is this talk for?
Anyone curious about what AI coding agents can do today, and where they might go next. Whether you’re a developer just getting started with AI tools, already using agents in your daily work, or simply interested in how AI agents are changing the way that we build software, there’s something here for you. No specialist knowledge required!
Whether you joined us last time or are discovering DevDay for the first time, come along to learn, exchange ideas and connect with the community.