Benchmarking Coding Agents on New vs Legacy Code bases
Official Schedule Context
- Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 12:05pm-12:25pm
- Track/room: Agentic Engineering · Track 8
- Speaker(s): Denys Linkov
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
Official Description
You have an old code base with 100,000s of lines of code, should you let an AI Agent refactor or do
you wait until you have a cleaner setup? Last year we refactored a number of code bases and ran
evaluations on how well different models, harnesses and rule sets affected multiple versions of the
code base. This talk will feature specific code examples as well as a broader set of evals.
Related YouTube Video
Structuring a modern AI team — Denys Linkov, Wisedocs (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).
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