Tech Debt Is Passé. Say Hello to Agent Debt
Tech debt used to be the thing. Now it's agents writing code faster than any human can review it, and the PR debt is piling up in most organizations. Welcome to the era of Tech and Agent Debt! This panel maps the shift in two parts: the bottleneck you have today (review fatigue and context collapse, as PR volume outpaces human verification) and the bottleneck coming next (once agents handle execution, the real constraint becomes trusted system context, evaluation and feedback loops, and deployment). The upshot: the center of gravity in engineering is moving from producing implementation toward defining intent, designing systems, constraining execution, and verifying outcomes.
Daksh Gupta
Co-Founder & CEO
Daksh is the co-founder/CEO of Greptile. Greptile is building AI agents that review code changes for 20,000+ companies like Nvidia, Coinbase, and Scale. It has raised $30M from Benchmark, YC, Paul Graham and others. Before this, Daksh studied computer science at Georgia Tech
Shalini Agarwal
Sr Director Engineering
As Senior Director of Engineering at LinkedIn, Shalini leads global engineering teams for LinkedIn’s Talent Marketplace, building AI-powered products that help members navigate and advance their careers. Her work includes search and recommendations, LLM applications, and agentic experiences that connect millions of people with opportunity. Her focus is on building AI experiences that genuinely help members and earn their trust.
Over two decades in technology, Shalini has built and scaled marketplace and consumer products. She spent nearly a decade at eBay shaping buyer experiences at global scale. She has led teams through major product and organizational change.
Shalini is equally passionate about making the technology industry more accessible. She leads LinkedIn’s REACH apprenticeship program, creating pathways into engineering for people from nontraditional backgrounds. She also leads Women in Tech for LinkedIn Engineering, focused on the growth and advancement of women in engineering.