FF26 – The AI Velocity Trap: Shipping Faster Without Breaking More - Ohans Emmanuel

LLMs and coding agents have made it dramatically easier to produce code. But if every velocity gain also increases regressions, incidents, and error rates, we have not improved software delivery; we have only moved the bottleneck downstream. We’ll explore: Why AI-assisted velocity is a liability without stronger feedback loops. How agents can harden the lifecycle before, during, and after code is written. How an agent team can verify plans, inspect changes, challenge assumptions, and catch issues before human review. How deployment awareness and production monitoring change the role of coding agents. How teams can ship faster without turning every release into a reliability gamble. The new SDLC loop: moving from requirements → build → verify → observe → repeat. Talk: The AI Velocity Trap: Shipping Faster Without Breaking More Speaker: Ohans Emmanuel Session: Agentic development Future Frontend 2026 - Tuesday 9 June Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B0N7... Drawing: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fsyC... Keywords: review, agents, coding agents, software, monitoring, requirements build verify, velocity trap, development, build verify, requirements build, changes, lifecycle, shipping, after code written, agent team verify, agents harden lifecycle, agents made dramatically, agents teams ship, ai-assisted velocity liability, assumptions catch issues, awareness production monitoring, bottleneck downstream explore, build verify observe, challenge assumptions catch Organizers: Juho Vepsäläinen, Eemeli Aro, Harri Määttä, Toni Ristola, Tuuli Tiilikainen, Juha-Matti Santala, Emilia Hjelm, Jussi Kinnula, Juho Lehtinen Volunteers: Asha Gaire, Mykyta Burachenko, Astrid Schneider Tech sponsors: Ohjelmistofriikit, Nitor Brand sponsor: Alma Media Speakers: Pasi Sillanpää, Joe Macleod, Laura Snellman-Junna, Anastasiia Zvenigorodskaia, Darío Gutiérrez Mori, Georgios Diamantopoulos, Daniel Yuschick, Ramona Schwering, Tejas Kumar, Una Kravets, Juho Vepsäläinen, Matthew Mamonov, Rashmi Suralkar, Ohans Emmanuel, Christoffer Niska, Alex Booker, Tony Kovanen, and Rachel-Lee Nabors https://futurefrontend.com