BugBash'26 Afternoon of Day 1

These are my notes from the afternoon sessions of BugBash'26. We had a 75 minute lunch break. Nice lunch, but there were no vegetarian entries, which made Peter Alvaro hangry. I don't blame him, I would be too. Informal methodsBen Eggers, Member of Technical Staff @ OpenAIThis was a fun and also thought provoking talk. The premise is "Nothing has changed about software development". Really? After the LLMs eating software like a wildfire, and particularly rocking at code generation in the last 3 months?? And this is coming from an OpenAI infrastructure engineer, who was once a 8th highest 7d token user. How come? The talk has two parts:writing code was where the hard parts surfacedagents move the work, but do not obviate itOk, now it makes more sense. Both of these are sensible statements. Ben followed with a couple disclaimers, that he is talking about deep narrow systems, and not about broad high surface area systems, because he has experience in the former, and didn't want to make…