Presentation: Teaching Engineers, Trusting AI: How Education Enabled Autonomous Code Review

Sarah Deitke: I'm a software engineer at Duolingo. I've worked there for about two years. Most of that time has been dedicated to the team that I'm on, called DevEx AI. You might be familiar with the traditional DevEx team, working on things like merge queues, CI/CD, the works like that. My team takes a different angle at that. We're focused on how do we enable our engineers to use AI effectively in their workflows. That's what my talk today is mostly about. What I'll cover in this talk, kind of where we see the industry going in terms of culture change with AI adoption. How our internal AI literacy programming through education helps our engineers. How that can enable autonomous systems and AI agents in your company with the case study of redesigning our code review processes. Then, how you can scale that in your organization. Let's talk about what we're seeing in the industry today. Most organizations do have pretty good tooling access. How many of your organizations have Cursor or Claude Code in your organization? How many of your organizations have a dedicated team towards helping you use those effectively? Maybe by the end of this talk,…