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AdamTornhill
Founder of CodeScene & Author of "Your Code as a Crime Scene"
Adam Tornhill is a programmer who combines degrees in engineering and psychology. He’s the founder of CodeScene where he designs tools for code analysis. Adam is also the author of multiple technical books, including the best selling Your Code as a Crime Scene and Software Design X-Rays. Adam’s other interests include modern history, music, retro computing, and martial arts.
Sessions at TechLeader Summit ’26
Faster Coding Requires Better Code
Many codebases already struggle with technical debt that makes development expensive, frustrating, and risky. When coding agents enter the development loop, existing technical debt becomes an AI-adoption constraint. Poor-quality code causes more defects and turns even state-of-the-art AI agents into legacy code generators.
Software Without Understanding: Leading When Coding Outpaces Comprehension
Not too long ago, each new feature in our products came with a reasonable assumption: there was a human programmer in the loop. Writing the code was how engineers learned their systems, and how organizations built knowledge of how those systems worked. Agentic coding breaks that feedback loop. Without understanding, we risk generating tomorrow's legacy systems at agentic speed.
Two and a half days with the people writing the playbook.
Insightful sessions, inspiring ideas, and meeting your peers — the skills and methods that take your organization to the next level.