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QCon London 2026: AI Agents Write Your Code. What’s Left for Humans?

Matt Saunders — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:15:00 GMT

Hannah Foxwell began her QCon London 2026 talk by noting that the long-sought velocity in development has arrived, but the industry is unsure how to use it. She set aside the technical details of agentic coding, focusing instead on its implications for the people working with these systems.

By Matt Saunders

QCon London 2026: Tools That Enable the Next 1B Developers

Daniel Curtis — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:22:00 GMT

At QCon London 2026, Ivan Zarea, director of platform engineering at Netlify, discussed the impact of AI on web development, noting a surge in non-traditional developers among the 11 million users on the platform. He presented three pillars for developer tools: developing expertise, honing taste, and practicing clairvoyance, emphasizing the need for thoughtful architecture in a evolving landscape.

By Daniel Curtis

QCon London 2026: Shielding the Core: Architecting Resilience with Multi-Layer Defenses

Michael Redlich — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:30:00 GMT

Anderson Parra, staff software engineer at SeatGeek, presented “Shielding the Core: Architecting Resilience with Multi-Layer Defenses” at QCon London 2026. Parra discussed strategies on how to handle significant traffic spikes in systems that can overwhelm an even well-designed infrastructure.

By Michael Redlich

QCon London 2026: Ethical AI is an Engineering Problem

Daniel Dominguez — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:49:00 GMT

At QCon London 2026, Clara Higuera, responsible AI program lead at BBVA, presented how many of the risks associated with AI systems are fundamentally engineering challenges rather than purely governance or policy issues.

By Daniel Dominguez

QCon London 2026: Running AI at the Edge - Running Real Workloads Directly in the Browser

Daniel Curtis — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:28:00 GMT

At QCon London 2026, James Hall discussed running AI workloads directly in browsers, highlighting local processing benefits such as enhanced privacy, reduced latency and cost. He examined technologies like Transformers.js and WebGPU, illustrated practical applications, and provided guidelines for browser-based AI implementation, emphasizing appropriate use cases and evaluation principles.

By Daniel Curtis

QCon London 2026: Fixing the AI Infra Scale Problem by Stuffing 1M Sandboxes in a Single Server

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:02:00 GMT

Unikraft CEO Felipe Huici demonstrated waking the one-millionth VM on a commodity server in ten milliseconds at QCon London. The talk traced a decade from academic unikernel research to a platform offering stateless scale-to-zero VMs with full isolation. Using Firecracker and VM snapshots, sleeping workloads resume instantly, turning server density from a hardware problem into a scheduling one.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers