---
title: "Agents, codebases, and teams: what it actually takes to ship together"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-06-29"
time: "11:10am-11:30am"
track: "Expo Stage 4 SE"
room: "Expo Stage 4 SE"
speakers: ["Aditya Khandelwal"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: ""
scheduleRoom: "Expo Stage 4 SE"
scheduleLabels: ["Expo Stage 4 SE", "session", "confirmed"]
---
# Agents, codebases, and teams: what it actually takes to ship together

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 11:10am-11:30am
- Track/room: track TBD · Expo Stage 4 SE
- Speaker(s): Aditya Khandelwal
- Session type/status: session · confirmed

- Track: track TBD
- Room: Expo Stage 4 SE
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
Using a coding agent solo is one thing. Getting a whole team to trust agent-written code, agent-run reviews, and long-running agent work is another. That's where most teams stall. This talk is about what it actually takes to get there: how to shape a codebase so agents can work in it safely, how to earn a skeptical team's trust instead of mandating it, and the failure modes that only show up once agents are part of the daily workflow.

## Media Evidence
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## Evidence Graph
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## Transcript Status
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## People
- [[aditya-khandelwal]]

## Notes
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## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# Agents, codebases, and teams: what it actually takes to ship together ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 11:10am-11:30am - Track/room: track TBD · Expo Stage 4 SE - Speaker(s): Aditya Khandelwal - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: track TBD - Room: Expo Stage 4 SE - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description Using a coding agent solo is one thing. Getting a whole team to trust agent-written code, agent-run reviews, and long-running agent work is another. That's where most teams stall. This talk is about what it actually takes to get there: how to shape a codebase so agents can work in it safely, how to earn a skeptical team's trust instead of mandating it, and the failure modes that only show up once agents are part of the daily workflow.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[aditya-khandelwal|Aditya Khandelwal]] — MTS at [[amazon-agi-lab|Amazon AGI Lab]].

### Topics Covered
- [[agent-security]]
- [[coding-agents]]

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