GenAI & BeyondDeep Dive180min
RoboCoders: Judgment Day – AI IDEs Face Off
This session tests AI-powered IDEs like Cursor and Windsurf as autonomous agents, challenging them to build a smart light bulb controller from scratch. Covering setup to optimization, the demo evaluates if these tools can truly transform software development or are simply incremental progress. The audience selects the winner.
Viktor GamovConfluent
Baruch SadogurskyTuxCare
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Monday, October 6, 13:30-16:30
Room 6
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Can AI-powered IDEs take software development to the next level? Unlike traditional code assistants that provide suggestions or guidance, AI-driven IDEs like Cursor and Windsurf promise to act as full-fledged agents capable of handling entire workflows. In this live showdown, we’re putting that promise to the test by challenging these tools to build a smart light bulb controller—something we’ve never developed before.
From setting up the project and implementing features to testing, debugging, and optimizing, the AI will take the reins. This isn’t about helping—it’s about doing. The audience will decide the winner based on how well the tools perform and, of course, whether the demo actually works.
Join us to see if AI IDEs can deliver on their bold promise of transforming development, or if they’re just another stepping stone on the path to something bigger.
From setting up the project and implementing features to testing, debugging, and optimizing, the AI will take the reins. This isn’t about helping—it’s about doing. The audience will decide the winner based on how well the tools perform and, of course, whether the demo actually works.
Join us to see if AI IDEs can deliver on their bold promise of transforming development, or if they’re just another stepping stone on the path to something bigger.
Viktor Gamov
Viktor Gamov is a Principal Developer Advocate at Confluent, where he champions the transformative power of real-time data streaming built on Apache Kafka. With deep expertise in enterprise application architectures and open-source technologies, Viktor has dedicated his career to helping developers and architects create the next generation of low-latency, scalable, and highly available data streaming platforms.
Viktor brings complex streaming concepts to life through engaging storytelling and practical metaphors, making him a seasoned speaker at conferences such as JavaOne, Devoxx, Kafka Summit, and API World.
You can find him on X/Bluesky @gamussa, talking about everything from workouts to Kafka configs. He brings the same energy to his conference talks as to everything else - genuine excitement about helping people solve real problems with better tools.
Viktor brings complex streaming concepts to life through engaging storytelling and practical metaphors, making him a seasoned speaker at conferences such as JavaOne, Devoxx, Kafka Summit, and API World.
You can find him on X/Bluesky @gamussa, talking about everything from workouts to Kafka configs. He brings the same energy to his conference talks as to everything else - genuine excitement about helping people solve real problems with better tools.
Baruch Sadogursky
Baruch Sadogursky (@jbaruch) did Java before it had generics, DevOps before there was Docker, and DevRel before it had a name. He started DevRel at JFrog when it was ten people and took it all the way to a successful $6B IPO by helping engineers solve problems. Now, Baruch keeps helping engineers solve problems, but also helps companies help engineers solve problems. He is a co-author of the "Liquid Software" and "DevOps Tools for Java Developers" books, Java Champion and CNCF Ambassador alumni, serves on multiple conference program committees, and regularly speaks at numerous most prestigious industry conferences, such as DevNexus, DevOpsDays, Voxxed Days, Devoxx, DevRelCon, Kubecon and QCon. Today, he's taking care of developers at TuxCare.
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