Your AI is writing code faster than you can ship it

AI coding tools have changed the pace of development, but not the pipeline they run through. The result is a new bottleneck: validating code rather than writing it.

This session draws on CircleCI's 2026 State of Software Delivery data, showing a 59% rise in throughput alongside a 7-point drop in main branch stability.

The speaker brings this to life with a live 100-PR validation board running 800 branches in parallel, showing what autonomous fixes, self-healing retries, and clean developer handoffs look like at AI speed.

The session also walks through Chunk, CircleCI's autonomous agent, tracing a real flaky test to its SQLite root cause, opening a PR, and verifying the fix across 10 runs.