Date: Tuesday, 10 November 2026 Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Venue: CodeBase Edinburgh, 37a Castle Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2EL
TechTalks #10 keeps the single-talk format and takes on a question most teams now face: is the code your agents write making the codebase safer or riskier? Dmitriy Fedoryshchev brings the answer from a 600-table, 21 TB legacy modernisation. Register on Meetup →
Talks
Legacy in Months, Not Years: Keeping AI-Written Code Safe to Change
Dmitriy Fedoryshchev Hear how to tell whether agent-written code is making a codebase safer or riskier, and how the rules the agent kept breaking became checks it cannot skip, built into Dmitriy’s own open-source tools. Lessons from modernising a 600-table, 21 TB legacy core into microservices with a squad that went AI-native under one doctrine: only merge code that can be understood and explained.
Agenda
| Time | What |
|---|---|
| 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM | Welcome · pizza · drinks · networking |
| 6:30 PM – 6:40 PM | Opening talk |
| 6:40 PM – 7:30 PM | Main talk |
| 7:30 PM – 7:45 PM | Q&A |
| 7:45 PM – 8:00 PM | Drinks · networking · closing |
| 8:00 PM onwards | Afterparty at a nearby pub |
Speaker Spotlights
Dmitriy Fedoryshchev — Lead Software Engineer — LinkedIn Dmitriy has worked on projects from startups to enterprises. His latest was modernising a 600-table, 21 TB legacy core into microservices, taking over from four previous attempts, with a squad that became AI-native on a custom multi-agent system under one doctrine: only merge code that can be understood and explained. Over a hundred merged open-source PRs across 20 projects, including Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft.
Partners
CodeBase · Dougray · Scottish Technology Club · Beyond Tech · Lyxonn
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