QCon AI New York 2025

Session

The Multi-Agent Approach: Building Reliable and Controllable Software Development Automation

December 16–17, 2025 · The New York Academy of Medicine

Tuesday Dec 16 / 01:20PM EST · Library Reading Room, 3rd Flr

Speaker

Itamar Friedman

Founder & CEO @Qodo - Building AI-Powered Code Review & Quality Solutions, 20+ Years Leading Machine Learning Teams

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Abstract

AI-driven development is shifting from autocomplete to continuous, controllable automation across the SDLC. This talk presents a multi-agent architecture where specialized agents collaborate asynchronously — from planning and analysis to testing and code review. Agents committing work as draft PRs that can be monitored, audited, overridden, and used as means of agent to agent communication. A shared context engine synchronizes knowledge across agents, combining semantic code search, embeddings, and organizational rules. Attendees will learn design patterns for auditable agent workflows, context sharing, and safe developer-in-the-loop automation, and see how such systems can already be customized for real engineering environments today.