This was my second conference for 2026, the trends have shifted from last year from vibe coding to multistep pipleline for focused agents to achieve the best results and keeping the human in the loop. This was a two day conference with a hands-on bootcamp.
The Future of AI-Generated Systems
In all conferences you will have presenters from companies that the presentation is a vehicle to advertise their product.
Eric Johnson was very uplighting mood, kept the interest up with jokes, connected with the audience sharing personal details and presented how Amazon’s products solve the problems currently faced by developers.
Bootcamp
We had the opportunity to create programmatically an agent/assistant, create and integrate custom tools (like fetch the weather depending on the context), and add RAG to append to pull from the database relevant content find the most similar depending on the user input and append it to the prompt.
We used ollama with local models that our agent connected and
Our specific assignment was to create a contract review agent, that you can use to get legal feedback, highlight the unfavourable clauses or querry about similar contracts. When the prompt reaches our agent we All the contracts can be stored as embeddings in a local db
Although javascript is not my forte, the code was very easy to navigate and understand, a facinating expirience to see all the moving parts behind a complete agent with all the bells and whistles.
Managing Agents Cost & Quality
We also had a discussion with the guys running to bootcamp, for the AI assisted development it seems that the solution they have implemented again a multi step process, with planning agents using the most complex and expensive LLM like Opus 4.7 and other agents for code generation based on the plan using Sonnet, and the simplest modes like Haiku for documentation and other simplistic tasks, archiving the best balance between cost and quality.
