QCon Software Development Conferences

Coaching can help colleagues develop their own answers to technical decisions.

Blanca Garcia Gil and Dianing Yudono cover five coaching skills at QCon London 2027.

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Anthropic describes a “paradox of supervision”: using AI effectively requires supervising its output, but that supervision depends on the same coding skills that may get less practice.

Agentic AI needs somewhere clear to operate.

Matthew Skelton, CEO & Principal at Conflux and Co-Author of Team Topologies, on why clear domains and bounded autonomy are part of the AI architecture.

In an Anthropic study, participants learning a new Python library with AI assistance scored 50% on a mastery quiz, compared with 67% for participants coding without AI.

A staging environment can reproduce the software and still miss the behavior of the data.

Lada Indra, Head of Data Platform at Pleo, on using a shadow environment to find data-dependent failures before they reach production.