Building Secure, High-Quality, AI-Powered Applications with Chris Lalonde

Watch the entire Superstream: https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/ai-superstream-building/0642572279196/0642572279196-video403952/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=free+trial&utm_content=ai+superstream In this clip from O’Reilly’s AI Superstream, Chris Lalonde exposes the hidden failures that emerge when AI accelerates development: where scaling breaks down (or, how two developers ended up with 40 pull requests awaiting review after a single sprint), why ""assumption drift"" silently breaks your systems, and the perils of what he calls ""casino coding"": those late-night sessions where you keep hitting enter like a slot machine, praying for working code. You’ll also find out what happened when his small team discovered they were producing enterprise-scale code volumes—and hitting enterprise-scale problems—years ahead of schedule. But this isn't just a cautionary tale. As Chris points out, “The real question isn't how fast you can ship code—it's how fast you can be trusted to ship code.” He provides a practical framework for ""defense in depth"" and ""quality built-in"" that will help you harness AI's power while avoiding the slop that destroys production systems, plus the battle-tested solutions his team implemented to survive and thrive at AI speed: specialized lightweight agents that catch issues early, preview environments that ground code in reality before merging, and the counterintuitive insight that ""code is effectively free now,"" making fancy pipelines mandatory, not optional. Follow O'Reilly on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oreilly/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/OReilly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oreillymedia BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/oreilly.bsky.social