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Your AI Pair Programmer Is Lying to You: Verification Patterns That Scale
Dana Kowalski
- When
- Tuesday, September 1510:30 AM – 11:00 AM · 30 min
- Where
- Main StageFort Mason Center, San Francisco
About this session
Generated code compiles, passes review, and still breaks production. We catalogued a year of agent-written incidents and built verification layers that catch what human review misses — without slowing anyone down.
Speaker
Dana Kowalski
Principal Engineer, Substrate AI
Dana runs the code-generation platform at Substrate, where about a third of merged pull requests are now machine-authored. Her work is mostly the verification layer that makes that survivable.
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