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I've been using AI coding agents daily for months. They're incredible at generating code. They're NOT that incredible at distributed systems. Same mistakes every time: no resilience, no observability, hardcoded everything. Services that compile and fall apart in production.

I spent ~10 years building Spring Cloud Sleuth (now Micrometer Tracing) and Spring Cloud Contract. The tools AI agents keep getting wrong. I've seen these failure patterns from both sides.

So I'm building a workshop: "Generate, Break, Fix: Distributed Systems in the AI Era" → You bring your laptop, your AI tool, Docker → I bring broken infrastructure - injecting latency, flaky service discovery etc. → You generate with AI, I break it, you fix it Any language. No slides.