AI Agents Are Changing Software Engineering, But Not in the Way You Think What changes when AI agents become part of the software development process? In this talk from Avalia Tech Forum 2026, Olivier Liechti explores how AI is reshaping software engineering, from faster development and agent harnesses to new challenges around trust, technical debt, code understanding and accountability. He also looks at cognitive and intent debt, why more output does not necessarily mean more value, and how engineering practices may need to evolve as AI becomes part of everyday development. Speaker: Olivier Liechti, CTO & Co-Founder at Avalia Systems Event: Avalia Tech Forum 2026, São Paulo www.avalia.io

Nesta palestra do Avalia Tech Forum 2026, em São Paulo, Fábio Velloso apresenta como o Java está evoluindo para atender às necessidades da IA corporativa, da integração com modelos ao runtime. Com exemplos práticos, explica como lidar com falhas e acompanhar o comportamento da IA em produção, mostrando como decisões para reduzir custos podem afetar a qualidade das respostas. A palestra também aborda os avanços da plataforma Java para melhorar o desempenho e a escalabilidade dessas aplicações. www.avalia.io

Fábio Velloso, executivo de tecnologia e professor de Arquitetura de Software, mostrou como o Java está evoluindo para atender às necessidades da IA corporativa, da API ao runtime. Olivier Liechti, CTO e fundador da Avalia, abordou o que já funciona na engenharia de software com agentes de IA. Para fechar, Ana Gutierrez, gerente de Desenvolvimento EaD na DOT Digital Group, conversou com Alessandra Rauh e Enio Moraes, diretores da Avalia Systems, sobre a passagem dos experimentos com IA para o uso em escala. Obrigado a todos que participaram e contribuíram para a conversa. www.avalia.io -EN Fábio Velloso, a technology executive and Software Architecture professor, explored how Java is evolving to meet the needs of enterprise AI, from APIs to the runtime. Olivier Liechti, Avalia’s CTO and founder, discussed what already works in software engineering with AI agents. To close the event, Ana Gutierrez, E-learning Development Manager at DOT Digital Group, joined Avalia Systems directors Alessandra Rauh and Enio Moraes to discuss the move from AI experiments to use at scale. Thank you to everyone who joined us and contributed to the conversation. www.avalia.io

Trecho da mesa redonda no Avalia Tech Forum 2026, em São Paulo. Na DOT Digital Group, a adoção de IA passou também por entender onde ela realmente fazia sentido no processo. Neste trecho, Ana explica como a Avalia ajudou a estruturar a avaliação dessas iniciativas, acompanhando custos, ganhos de eficiência e resultados na prática. Nem todo uso de IA gera o mesmo impacto, e medir isso ao longo do tempo ajuda a decidir o que deve evoluir, ser ajustado ou simplesmente não avançar. www.avalia.io

Trecho da mesa redonda no Avalia Tech Forum 2026, em São Paulo. Na DOT Digital Group, a adoção de IA passou também por entender onde ela realmente fazia sentido no processo. Neste trecho, Ana explica como a Avalia ajudou a estruturar a avaliação dessas iniciativas, acompanhando custos, ganhos de eficiência e resultados na prática. Nem todo uso de IA gera o mesmo impacto, e medir isso ao longo do tempo ajuda a decidir o que deve evoluir, ser ajustado ou simplesmente não avançar. www.avalia.io

DORA tells you whether software delivery is working well at the engineering level. Avalia looks at the bigger picture: not just whether engineering is delivering well, but whether that delivery is actually moving the company’s technology investments in the right direction.

Most "productivity" gains are just future problems you haven't paid for yet. You ship faster this quarter by cutting corners on quality, or by hard-coding something so rigid it can't move next year. The bill always comes. www.avalia.io

Why does tech productivity often drop after an acquisition? Not because the team suddenly became less capable. www.avalia.io M&A | Post-Merger Integration | Tech Productivity | Technology Integration Audience: Investors

Dashboards should not make leaders hunt for what matters. Want to know how DX Hub can help you turn productivity data into a clear meeting agenda? Schedule a demo to see it in action. #dx-hub #ai #executive-teams #productivity #decisionmaking Audience: CIOs

Producing more is not the same as creating more value. www.avalia.io #productivity #rework #delivery-speed #software-quality #business-value Audience: CIOs

The systems that slow you down rarely fail loudly. They just make every new initiative a little harder than it should be. #ctos #techleadership #innovation

Every tech investment has a thesis. But the deals that underperform usually don't fail because the opportunity was wrong. They fail because the system wasn't built for what came next. www.avalia.io Post-Merger Integration | Value Creation | Technology Strategy | Post-Deal Execution | Technology Risk | Investment Thesis Audience: Investors

We keep seeing the same story: a promising AI pilot, a lot of excitement, and then... it stalls. Not because the technology failed. But because it was never connected to the infrastructure, data, and workflows that would make it stick. That's the conversation most teams aren't having early enough. What does your experience tell you — where do AI projects most often break down? AI Implementation | AI Infrastructure | Data Readiness | Workflow Integration | Audience: CIOs

Adding more engineers doesn’t increase output. It increases complexity. We keep seeing the same pattern in fast-growing tech companies: → more people → more dependencies → more coordination. But not more impact. Because output doesn’t scale with headcount, it scales with clarity, knowing where value is created… and where it’s lost. hashtag#SoftwareEngineering hashtag#TechLeadership hashtag#DeveloperProductivity

Most companies still treat IT as a cost. But the ones pulling ahead are turning it into a revenue engine. Read at: www.avalia.io/post/how-to-turn-a-cost-center-it-into-a-revenue-generator Technology ROI | IT Value | Business Alignment | Revenue Growth | Technology Strategy | Value Creation Audience: CIOs

Read at www.avalia.io/post/when-a-pallet-becomes-a-strategy Technology Value | Executive Visibility | Business Alignment | Technology Strategy | Business Impact Audience: CIOs

AI is getting better at predicting the future. Yet humans still outperform it where it matters most. Why? Because prediction without judgment doesn’t lead to better decisions. New benchmarks like FutureX and insights from MIT research point to the same conclusion: as forecasts become abundant, human judgment becomes the real competitive advantage. The future isn’t AI vs humans — it’s AI + judgment. AI Decision-Making | Human Judgment | Predictive AI | AI Strategy | Responsible AI | Decision Intelligence Audience: Business Leaders

In a large field experiment at Procter & Gamble (776 professionals), researchers found something striking: individuals using GenAI performed at a level comparable to two-person teams—suggesting AI can sometimes act more like a teammate than a tool. AI-Augmented Work | Human-AI Collaboration | Team Productivity | Future of Work | Audience: Business Leaders