Coinspaid Dev's Alexey Tulia: AI agents need clear authority before they reach production

Speaking at Tech Race Summit 2026 in Warsaw, Coinspaid Dev executive leader Alexey Tulia argued that companies must decide who answers for AI decisions before those systems touch live infrastructure.

As covered by Coinpedia, Tulia made his case on the AI Impact in Engineering panel, where he examined how the work of engineers and CTOs changes as AI moves beyond drafting and analysis. Most businesses still use it as an assistant. The next phase, in his view, connects agents directly to sensitive data and deployment pipelines, where they can act on their own.

His remarks come amid a wider debate over whether AI capability is outpacing safety practice, a concern Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei raised when he called for slower capability development. Tulia brought the question down to company level. "The more authority we give machines, the more important accountability becomes," he said. Picture an agent that can prepare a code change and push it live. If it does so without human approval and the release fails, someone has to own the outcome.

According to Tulia, several safeguards should be in place before an agent gets that kind of access:

• permission controls that define what it can touch
• audit logs covering every action
• the ability to stop it at once
• a tested way to recover from a failed deployment

On budgets, he urged CTOs to tie AI spending to a specific organisational need. Strong APIs and reliable data sit at the top of his list, with automated testing, observability, security and flexible architecture close behind. Such work rarely brings immediate revenue, yet it lets a company replace a provider or rework a system when assumptions shift. Teams also need spare capacity, because a roadmap that consumes every resource leaves no room to trial new tools. "I don't need to predict the future perfectly. I need to make being wrong cheap," Tulia said.

Faster coding and prototyping, he added, should give engineers more time to understand the business problem and follow their work into production. Leaders can support this with clear context and expected outcomes, then measure productivity through correctness, maintainability, security and operational performance instead of code volume. By 2029, Tulia expects smaller teams to handle broader areas and AI to write most production code, which puts verification at the centre. CTOs will still need deep technical expertise alongside business understanding as more vendors and AI-built systems enter each organisation. "I think technical judgment becomes even more important," he said.

Coinspaid Dev is an independent software engineering company focused on blockchain infrastructure, with more than 120 engineers, over 11 years of industry experience and systems running across more than 20 blockchain networks.

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