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QCon San Francisco 2026 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.
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Monday 16 November
10:35 Pacific LM Sponsored Legacy vs. AI-Native Is the Wrong Question: Architecting the Modern Platform Payal Patel, Saiprasad Murali Engineering leaders modernizing operational platforms are often presented with a false binary: choose the control and reliability of established enterprise platforms or embrace AI-native tools optimized for speed, automation, and intelligent experiences. 11:45 Pacific LM Session Sponsored Session Details coming soon! 13:35 Pacific LM Sponsored Your Agents Lack Context: Here's How to Fix 'You're absolutely right!"' Brandon Waselnuk Developer Relations @Unblocked Every AI coding tool can generate code. Very few can generate the right code for your organization, because they’re missing context. 14:45 Pacific LM Sponsored Wait, You're Still Doing PRs? Lee Faus Founder & CEO @Atomic PRs were built for open source. A non-maintainer wanted to contribute, a maintainer needed a gate, and you opened the PR early so the two of you could work through the change together while it was still forming. That was the point. The PR was where the thinking happened. 14:45 Pacific LM Sponsored The Context Gap: Why Correct Agents Fail Two agents edit different files. Git merges clean. The program is broken. No conflict was thrown, because the collision was in meaning, not in text — and business decisions are almost all semantic.