Ala Shiban

Ala Shiban

Ala Shiban is a Group Product Manager at Datadog, where he leads Software Delivery and Developer Experiences. His teams build the tools engineers use to build, test and release code, from CI visibility and test optimization to feature flags and live debugging. He spends his time on a question AI coding has made much more relevant: how to validate code as fast as agents can write it.
How Do You Review 10x the Code? You Don’t
AI Coding Summit NYCAI Coding Summit NYC
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How Do You Review 10x the Code? You Don’t
AI is generating code at 10x human speed, but we’re not shipping software 10x faster. Agents have a quality problem, and we still can’t trust their output without validation. Breaking the code review model didn’t help. So what would it take to autonomously ship code that’s actually trustworthy? This talk explores what an agentic harness looks like when the SDLC is the harness: a validation system that spans intent, CI, staging and production, with context flowing both ways between every stage.