The AI-Native team: collaboration, code quality, and the cost of speed

💬 About the Birds of Feather (BOF) session

AI is no longer just a co-pilot; it’s rapidly becoming an autonomous co-worker. With 84% of developers now relying on generative tools , engineering teams have solved the problem of speed -- only to create a far more complex challenge: the crisis of collaboration and quality control.

This Birds of a Feather (BOF) session invites practitioners, managers, and technologists to move past the hype and dive into the high-stakes reality of building software with AI. We will confront the Productivity Paradox - where speed in generation is offset by a hidden productivity tax in auditing.

• The Quality Crisis: How do we govern the output of AI solutions that are “almost right, but not quite,” preventing the mass-scaling of low-quality, inextensible code?
• The Collaboration Rift: When one teammate orchestrates a multi-agent system and another uses a single-line co-pilot, how do you maintain traceability, team rhythm, and a shared architectural vision?
• The True Economics: Beyond the subscription fee, how do companies quantify the hidden productivity tax of debugging complex AI artifacts, and what protocols are mandatory for managing IP and licensing risks?

This discussion will explore:

• AI Workflows in the Wild: Real-World wins, audit overhead, and best practices for integrating autonomous agents.
• Governing the Generative: Protocols for standardization, code quality, and enforcing architectural integrity in LLM-scaffolded applications.
• The True Cost of Automation: Quantifying the cost-to-benefit ratio, centralized model access, and the critical importance of IP and lineage governance.
• The Human Transition: Navigating team collaboration, building trust in AI-generated output and redefining job roles - from Coder to AI Orchestrator - in the new team hierarchy.

🗣️ Format

Facilitator: Jagadish Kasi is the curator of this BOF. He will anchor and guide the conversation.
Contributors: 3-4 practitioners who are already experimenting with AI tools in production teams will share their experiences in the course of discussion.
Participants: Everyone joins in - this is a collaborative discussion, not a lecture. Expect to share your own stories, lessons, and questions.

Expected outcomes

💡 The goal of this Birds of Feather session is to surface real-world practices, challenges, and questions that can evolve into deeper talks and workshops in upcoming meet-ups. These insights will feed into the creation of advanced talks, deep-dive workshops, and hopefully guide in building industry standards needed to safely scale the AI-native development model.

🧭 How to attend

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