Your AI Agent Starts Every Session Like a New Hire - Killian Carlsen-Phelan, Sonar
AI Engineer — Oct 30, 2026 — talk — 18.4K views · 93 likes
Why watch
Killian Carlsen-Phelan demonstrates Sonar Vortex, a plugin that solves the 'blank slate' problem where AI coding agents start each session without knowing project conventions. The tool provides agents with a map of the codebase and guidelines before they write code, then deterministically checks every edit. In a live demo, Vortex catches a temp-file permission bug that the agent's own tests missed. This solution addresses the trust issue in AI-generated code (96% don't fully trust it) while delivering measurable results: 36% fewer tokens and 44% fewer production outages.