In 2026, the daunting fear of the proverbial blank page has vanished. We have agents writing lines of code faster than we can read them, and our task is shifting from developers to curators.
But there is a catch: while agents are masters of syntax, they are strangers to taste. They can generate functionally "correct" code that is architecturally hollow. If we aren't careful, the high-velocity output of the agents will wash away the Pythonic principles of elegance and maintainability we’ve spent decades refining replacing it with unmaintainable AI slop.
To thrive in this timeline of agentic code development, we must promote ourselves from developers to code curators. In this talk, we will explore the three pillars of the curator’s craft:

Developing a curator's nose: how to identify the synthetic smell of agentic output, from the verbosity tax to the obsolete echoes where agents default to old python idioms instead of model standards.
Developing a curator's eye: Python is one of the most used languages because, among so many other things, its commitment to simplicity. We’ll look at how taste will help us integrate cutting-edge features where an agent would fall back to legacy bloat and inefficient patterns.
Developing a curator's hand: we must provide with the precise guidance required to build architectures that withstand the test of time. We’ll discuss practical strategies like context injection and architectural guardrails to force the agents to code following the standards of your codebase not their training data
In an era of infinite generation, our value is no longer found in the lines we write, but in the systems we compose. We are no longer just authors of code; we are the guardians of the Pythonic craft.