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SUMMARY:2 Million Dollars worth of code for $2\,000: Rewriting large softwa
	re projects with AI agents
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DESCRIPTION:Description:\nScanCode is the open-source industry standard for
	 scanning software for licenses and copyrights – a substantial real-world 
	system with more than 60\,000 lines of Python behind it. Conventional wisd
	om says rewriting something like that would take a team of engineers and a
	 seven-figure budget. Dr. Maxim Stykow and Dr. Adrian Braemer wanted to fi
	nd out how far $2\,000\, three weeks\, and a swarm of AI agents could real
	ly get them.\n\nThis is their war story. They first attempted the rewrite 
	in February 2025\, when coding agents were still new. It was promising\, b
	ut too supervision-heavy to be practical\, so they shelved it. Then in ear
	ly 2026\, the picture changed: Better models\, better harnesses\, and bett
	er workflows made it possible to push agents much further on long-running 
	engineering tasks.\n\nMaxim and Adrian will share the gritty details: the 
	mix of third-party frontier models and open-weight models running on TNG’s
	 own Skainet infrastructure. The dramatic quality gap between models – whe
	re stronger ones solved in minutes what weaker ones failed at for hours. T
	he point where an agent introduced thousands of tests and slowed iteration
	 to a crawl\, forcing them to teach it to optimize its own feedback loop b
	efore continuing. Progress lost to accidental git resets. Orchestrator age
	nts forgetting about their own subagents and fighting themselves. The “one
	 more prompt” addiction. And the surprising power of AGENTS.md\, living do
	cumentation\, and tight feedback loops with custom linters and tests.\n\nW
	hether you care about large software rewrites\, autonomous coding\, or sim
	ply getting more leverage as a developer\, this talk is a practical field 
	report from the current frontier of agentic engineering – what worked\, wh
	at didn’t\, and what’s coming next.\n--------------------------------\n\nS
	peaker:\n- Maxim Stykow\n- Adrian Braemer\n\n-----------------------------
	---\n\nTalk details:\n- Link to the Big Techday website: https://bigtechda
	y.com/en/talks#1ckBbBfvwisPk3PzQoQneD\n
LOCATION:Kohlebunker I
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