I Let Agents Refactor My Codebase for 3 Weeks. Then I Read the Code.
- Day
- Day 3 — Session Day 2 · Wed, Jul 1
- Time
- 2:25pm-2:45pm
- Room
- Leadership 2 · Room 3020
- Track
- AI Architects: Tokenmaxxing
AI Architects on tokenmaxxing, model routing, orchestration, and whether the code review (and reading code) is dead.
Accessible with the Leadership (All-Access) pass and above.
About this session
Lopopolo says code is a liability. Zechner got a standing ovation for "read every fucking line." I was firmly at L — letting coding agents drive a refactoring for weeks, rubber-stamping PRs, trusting the vibes. Then I actually read what they'd built and couldn't explain my own system's contracts. The interfaces weren't wrong. They were plausible. Which is worse. So I took the wheel back. But this isn't a Zechner victory lap — I'm now building better specs and evals specifically so I can move back toward L with confidence. This talk is the honest, in-progress round trip, and a framework for finding where you should sit on the spectrum today.
