Head of Developer Experience at CodeRabbit, building agent-first developer tools and AI code review.
Session
Workshop
Date
Tuesday, December 1
Level
Intermediate
// AI Engineering Skill /
Building agentic systems
// 01 / Bio
Erik Thorelli is Head of Developer Experience at CodeRabbit, where he works on agent-first products and developer tools. He speaks about Agent Experience (AX), evaluating software with and for LLM agents, and AI code review. He co-organizes All Things Web, a San Francisco developer community, and previously led mobile and Applied AI teams at Cisco Meraki.
// 02 / The session
The mythical agent-month: making a codebase fit for agents to fly at 5,000 PRs per engineer per month
Abstract
Moving from pairing with agents to full autonomy is a big shift, and a lot of work, but it’s more straightforward than you might think. The payoff can be more than 300x the merged pull requests per engineer.
Many teams are still stuck in interactive foreground sessions, watching agent threads and jumping between them. At CodeRabbit, setting up codebases and systems for agents took one engineer from about 20 merged PRs a month a year ago to nearly 7,000 in October.
Erik will walk through the specific changes that let agents work safely without constant human supervision. The companion workshop applies them to one small repository, step by step: a one-page AGENTS.md, a machine-readable check command, property tests and mutation testing, independent review that catches what tests miss, and a merge gate pinned to the reviewed commit.
What you’ll learn
Codebase changes that let agents run unsupervised
Set up AGENTS.md and a check command
Gate merges on the reviewed commit
Skills you’ll practice
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