Adam Gordon Bell
Adam Gordon Bell is a Community Engineer at Pulumi and creator of the CoRecursive podcast, with several million downloads and interviews with the creators of SQLite, Chef, and PowerShell. He has over 20 years of experience as a software engineer and has written widely-read technical guides on AWK, jq, Bazel, and containers. Previously, he built cloud security products at Tenable and led developer relations at Earthly.
Montreal 2027 sessions
The PR Review Bottleneck Nobody Talks About
English session - Beginner
Teams ship code more slowly than they think, and the real slowdown isn't CI, deploys, or automation. It's the days your pull requests sit waiting for review. This talk breaks down what research shows about review latency, why humans struggle to review large PRs, and how AI might make this bottleneck better, or much worse. You'll leave with concrete changes to make to your review cycle.
When AI Agents Touch Real Infrastructure: Five War Stories
English session - Intermediate
AI agents aren't just writing code anymore. They're executing it. I gave agents access to real cloud infrastructure and turned off the guardrails. This talk shares five war stories of what went wrong, a framework for thinking about when agents are safe to use, and the benchmark we're still missing. You'll leave with concrete safeguards for your own agent setup.
