AI Engineer Code Summit schedules two days on coding agents and software quality

AI Engineer Code Summit’s conference program starts November 11, 2026, at 9 a.m. PT at Hilton Union Square in San Francisco. The organizer promises a livestream, but its event page provides no direct watch link. After a scheduled workshop day, the November 11–12 agenda pairs coding-agent workflows with sessions on checking their work and controlling their autonomy.

The opening introduction is not the first talk

Wednesday’s mainstage program begins with a ten-minute introduction from Corey Quinn. Natalie Serrino of Gimlet Labs follows at 9:10 a.m. PT with “What Will You Build When AI Is 10x Faster?” Anthropic’s Lydia Hallie is scheduled at 9:30 a.m. for “Rethinking Claude Code Best Practices.” Registration opens earlier, at 8 a.m.; that is not the start of the talks.

Thursday, November 12, follows the same opening pattern: Quinn at 9 a.m., then OpenAI’s Jason Liu at 9:10 a.m. with “Ambition in AI.” The detailed schedule separates mainstage programming from expo sessions, so attendees should check the room as well as the time. The mainstage is listed in Continental 4–6, with expo sessions in Continental 1–3.

Autonomy shares the agenda with verification

The organizer identifies three themes: fighting low-quality output in software factories, building with “System One” models, and rewriting critical applications. Its program description also includes internal agents used by companies, code review, evaluations and the infrastructure behind production workflows.

Several scheduled talks make the oversight question concrete. Wednesday includes Sonar’s “Building a Safe Software Factory” at 12:10 p.m. and Factory’s “Earning Autonomy: From Missions to Workstreams” at 12:35 p.m. Thursday’s expo program includes Auth0’s “Talk But Verify: human-in-the-loop for agents that actually matter” at 11:45 a.m.—a session explicitly focused on retaining human involvement.

Other sessions to bookmark

• Wednesday, 11:20 a.m. PT: Google DeepMind’s Philipp Schmid is listed for “I deleted 90% of my harness (And It Got Better).” The percentage is part of the talk title, not an independently verified result.
• Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. PT: Simon Willison is scheduled to deliver “2026 in LLMs,” a late-day session following Steve Yegge’s “Software Factories: Escape from Trash Mountain.”
• Thursday, 2:05–2:50 p.m. PT: The agenda gives Jarred Sumner, identified as Bun’s founder at Anthropic, a 45-minute mainstage slot.

Remote access remains the missing practical detail

For remote viewers, the event listing says to watch the livestream, subscribe to the organizer’s YouTube channel or follow along on X.

In person, the venue is Hilton Union Square, 333 O’Farrell Street. Attendance is by application: applying is free but does not reserve a seat. The listing advertises regular talks-and-expo admission at $1,299 plus fees and final or at-door admission at $1,499 plus fees. Approval leads to a purchase link, so an application should not be mistaken for a ticket.

For attendees building a personal itinerary, the organizer also publishes the schedule as open data, including session and speaker files and an iCal option.