Practical Specification Driven Development
Prompting AI may be useful for generating code, but it is not a complete approach to developing and maintaining software applicati...
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For decades, software followed predefined paths. Today, systems increasingly retrieve information, reason over context, and make decisions.
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Reliability, observability, governance, security, evaluation, and operational control take on new meaning when behavior becomes probabilistic.
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Coding agents, intelligent applications, orchestration systems, evaluation platforms, and autonomous workflows are reshaping software engineering.
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GAINS brings together the engineers, architects, and platform teams helping shape software engineering in the age of AI.
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For decades, our systems have been built around deterministic execution. We could trace behavior through code, reproduce failures, and establish confidence through testing, observability, and operational controls. As intelligence becomes part of software itself, many of those assumptions are being challenged.
Applications increasingly retrieve information dynamically, reason over context, generate plans, invoke tools, coordinate workflows, and take actions whose outcomes cannot always be predicted in advance. The challenge is no longer simply building AI features. It extends across architecture, software development, testing, deployment, operations, governance, security, reliability, and scale.
The question is no longer whether intelligence will become part of software. The question is how we build systems that remain reliable, observable, governable, and trustworthy once it does.
GAINS is an engineering-first conference dedicated to exploring how software engineering evolves in response.
Over two days in Bengaluru, engineers, architects, platform teams, technical leaders, educators, and practitioners come together to examine the systems, infrastructure, workflows, and engineering practices emerging around intelligent software. From coding agents and AI-assisted development to orchestration, evaluation, observability, governance, infrastructure, and autonomous operations, GAINS explores the disciplines shaping software in the age of AI.
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