Hidden Failure Modes of AI Agents

​AI coding agents are increasingly embedded in production workflows, but their failure modes are often poorly understood, difficult to detect, and even harder to evaluate systematically.

​This session examines how agent-based systems degrade under real-world conditions, focusing on three critical dimensions: reliability, code quality, and security. We’ll look at where current evaluation approaches fall short, how non-determinism and context drift impact correctness, and why seemingly “successful” generations can still introduce latent defects or vulnerabilities.

​If you’re building, evaluating, or deploying AI agents in production systems, this session will provide a grounded view of where they fail and what it takes to make them robust

​Agenda 

• ​​​6:00pm Venue opens

• ​​​6:30pm Hidden Failure Modes for AI Agents by Nupur Sharma

• ​6:50pm Panel Discussion

• ​Panelists 

  • ​Simon Maple - Developer Relations at Tessl

  • ​Brian Vermeer - Staff Developer Advocate at Snyk

  • ​Nupur Sharma - Solutions Engineer at Qodo

  • ​Kunal Kushwaha - Senior Developer Advocate EMEA at Cast AI

• ​​​20:30 THE END

​Simon Maple - Developer Relations at Tessl

​Simon Maple is the Head of Developer Relations at Tessl, and AI Native Dev co-host. Previously, Simon was the Field CTO, and VP Developer Relations at Snyk, ZeroTurnaround, and IBM. He became a Java Champion in 2014, JavaOne Rockstar speaker in 2014 and 2017, Duke’s Choice award winner, Virtual JUG founder and organiser, and London Java Community co-leader

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​Brian Vermeer - Staff Developer Advocate at Snyk

​Staff Developer Advocate for Snyk, Java Champion, and Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience in creating and maintaining software. He is passionate about Java, (Pure) Functional Programming and Cybersecurity. Brian is a JUG leader for the Virtual JUG and the NLJUG. He also co-leads the DevSecCon community and is a community manager for Foojay. He is a regular international speaker on mostly Java-related conferences like JavaOne, Devnexus, Devoxx, Jfokus, JavaZone and many more. Besides all that, Brian is a military reserve for the Royal Netherlands Air Force and a Taekwondo Master / Teacher.

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​Nupur Sharma - Solutions Engineer at Qodo 

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​Kunal Kushwaha - Senior Developer Advocate EMEA at Cast AI

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