Tejas Kumar
Tejas Kumar is an AI Engineer at IBM, founder of Daiku, and the bestselling author of Fluent React (O’Reilly). Based in Berlin, he’s spent more than 25 years building for the web and has delivered 85 recorded talks at 68 events, including React Summit, JSConf EU, GOTO, and AI Engineer Europe. He hosts the ConTejas Code podcast and writes about AI engineering, software factories, and the human taste that makes technology worth using.
AI Software Factories: Building Software Without Losing the Plot
AI software factories are starting to show up: systems where people set the vision and the product principles, an AI product manager turns them into tickets, and coding agents work through the queue on their own. It sounds like a big shift, and in some ways it is.
In this talk, Tejas shows what one looks like in practice: how it works day to day, and what it can and can’t do yet. It isn’t all smooth. Things break, cognitive debt piles up without anyone noticing, and if nobody is making deliberate choices, you end up shipping slop. Everyone has a hammer now, but that doesn’t mean everyone builds a good house. So we’ll also look at taste: what it is, how you can train it, and why designers and front-end developers are in a better spot than they think.
You’ll leave with a clear view of what’s happening at the front edge of AI software factories, ideas you can take back to your own company, and the risks to watch for. Because someone still has to decide what’s worth building.
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