--- schema: 1 type: video title: 'LLM codegen fails and how to stop ''em — Danilo Campos, PostHog' description: >- Danilo Campos breaks down the most common failure modes in LLM code generation and the practical strategies PostHog uses to prevent them. Drawing from a system that helps 5,000+ users each month, he shares a playbook for making autonomous codegen more reliable, correct, and production-ready. 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Drawing from a system that helps 5,000+ users each month, he shares a playbook for making autonomous codegen more reliable, correct, and production-ready. Speaker info: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danilocampos --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/juoNbJiZUi0-llm-codegen-fails-and-how-to-stop-em Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/llm-codegen-fails-and-how-to-stop-em-danilo-campos-416ada51935c · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks --- #### Chunk 0: Document excerpt (0:15 to 1:56) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 1: Document excerpt (1:56 to 2:06) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 2: Document excerpt (2:06 to 4:02) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 3: Document excerpt (4:02 to 5:57) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 4: Document excerpt (5:57 to 6:07) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 5: Document excerpt (6:07 to 8:21) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 6: Document excerpt (8:21 to 8:33) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 7: Document excerpt (8:33 to 10:10) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 8: Document excerpt (10:10 to 10:21) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 9: Document excerpt (10:21 to 12:15) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 10: Document excerpt (12:15 to 13:46) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 11: Document excerpt (13:46 to 15:36) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 12: Document excerpt (15:36 to 15:47) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 13: Document excerpt (15:47 to 17:42) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 14: Document excerpt (17:42 to 19:18) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text.