The Developer's Field Guide to Google DevFest Atlanta 2026

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<p>One question stayed with me after Google DevFest Atlanta 2026 at Morehouse College: if an AI agent needed to stop right now, could your team prove that it stopped safely?<br> A lot of the conversation around agentic AI is still focused on how quickly we can build, connect, and automate. But several sessions at DevFest pushed in a different direction: what does it actually take to operate these systems safely once they are doing real work?</p> <p>Jim Stephens's session on the Hidden Constraint Index gave a practical way to think about what is really slowing an organization down. The key remi

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<p>One question stayed with me after Google DevFest Atlanta 2026 at Morehouse College: if an AI agent needed to stop right now, could your team prove that it stopped safely?<br> A lot of the conversation around agentic AI is still focused on how quickly we can build, connect, and automate. But several sessions at DevFest pushed in a different direction: what does it actually take to operate these systems safely once they are doing real work?</p> <p>Jim Stephens's session on the Hidden Constraint Index gave a practical way to think about what is really slowing an organization down. The key remi

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<p>One question stayed with me after Google DevFest Atlanta 2026 at Morehouse College: if an AI agent needed to stop right now, could your team prove that it stopped safely?<br> A lot of the conversation around agentic AI is still focused on how quickly we can build, connect, and automate. But several sessions at DevFest pushed in a different direction: what does it actually take to operate these systems safely once they are doing real work?</p> <p>Jim Stephens's session on the Hidden Constraint Index gave a practical way to think about what is really slowing an organization down. The key remi

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The Developer's Field Guide to Google DevFest Atlanta 2026

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