# Ideas: slow down to speed up when working with AI agents
### Devs are generating twice as much code (or more) than just 6 months ago, which is a problem for quality, reliability, and tech debt. A rational fix is available for these, but who’s acting rationally?


_Scheduling update: this week, there will be a podcast episode on Wednesday and no The Pulse on Thursday._

I’m in Budapest, Hungary, this week, for Craft Conference, where I’ll be giving a keynote presentation alongside other speakers, including software engineering legend Kent Beck, who’s been [on the podcast](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/tdd-ai-agents-and-coding-with-kent), Hillel Wayne, a formal methods expert and the author of ‘[Logic for Programmers](https://leanpub.com/logic)’, and Titus Winters, lead author of [Software Engineering at Google](https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book).

The title of my keynote is _“Slow down to speed up”,_ and I’ve been thinking about this topic a lot recently. Here are some things I’ve been seeing that I feel are relevant…

### AI coding tools now used by pretty much all software engineers – that’s fast!