Last week, we had the pleasure of attending Sonar Summit 2026 as a proud sponsor. Huge thanks to the Sonar team for organizing such a strong event and for continuing to build a high-impact ecosystem around code quality and security.
First of all, a big thank you to the entire Sonar team for organizing such a fantastic event and for continuing to build an incredible ecosystem around code quality and security. It was inspiring to see engineering leaders, platform teams, and developers from across the industry come together to discuss how software development is evolving in the age of AI.
At Oobeya, this ecosystem matters deeply to us. We are both a Technology Partner and a Channel Partner of Sonar, and currently the only company that holds both partnerships. This helps us support organizations that want to combine deep SonarQube quality and security insights with organization-wide, AI-powered engineering visibility through Oobeya.
Our Session: Visibility and Productivity in the Age of AI
At the Sonar Summit, we hosted a Fireside Chat together with my colleagues, Şükrü Çakmak — CTO and Omer Celebioglu — Head of Partnerships at Oobeya.
In the session, we explored one of the most important questions engineering leaders face today:
What changes when AI becomes a daily collaborator in software development?
AI coding assistants are accelerating delivery. Pull request volume rises, change volume grows, and development cycles move faster. But speed alone is not enough. Engineering leaders need visibility, governance, and control to ensure AI-accelerated development still produces secure and high-quality outcomes.
We covered:
- How AI-assisted development changes productivity dynamics
- Why engineering visibility is now a leadership requirement
- How leaders can maintain ownership, quality, and accountability
- A short demo of Oobeya's AI-powered Engineering Intelligence platform
Key Announcements from Sonar Summit 2026
The Summit introduced several innovations that highlight how AI is reshaping software development.
1. Agent-Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC)
A new approach where AI agents take an active role in creating, reviewing, verifying, and improving code. Learn more about AC/DC.
2. Agentic Analysis (Beta)
Brings SonarQube analysis into agent workflows so generated code can be validated and improved automatically. Learn more here.
3. Sonar Context Augmentation
Injects real-time SonarQube insights into AI agent workflows to improve safety and code quality at generation time. Learn more here.
4. SonarQube Architecture Management (GA)
Helps teams monitor architecture drift and protect long-term system design integrity. Learn more here.
5. SonarQube Remediation Agent (Public Beta)
Automatically fixes detected issues and verifies results, creating a closed loop across review, fix, and validation.
The Bigger Shift: AI-Driven Engineering Systems
Software delivery is moving toward agent-driven environments where:
- AI generates code
- AI verifies quality
- AI fixes issues
- Humans supervise the system
This dramatically increases development velocity, but it also creates new challenges for engineering leadership.
Why Engineering Visibility Matters More Than Ever
AI-accelerated development introduces new pressures:
- Pull request volumes can increase rapidly
- Code review pressure grows across teams
- Quality signals become harder to interpret
- Ownership and accountability can blur
That is why engineering leaders need organization-wide visibility across the SDLC. Platforms like Oobeya help leaders understand what is happening across repositories, CI/CD systems, issue trackers, and quality tools so they can manage productivity, quality, and risk together.
Learn more about our integration approach: Oobeya + SonarQube
Our Perspective at Oobeya
We see the industry evolving through three stages:
- Understanding how developers work
- Understanding how developers work with AI
- Preparing to measure and control how AI agents work.
Our mission is to help engineering leaders keep visibility, governance, and control in this new era of AI-accelerated software development.
Thank You
Beyond the announcements and sessions, one of the best parts of Sonar Summit was connecting with engineering leaders, DevSecOps, and platform teams across the ecosystem.
Thanks again to the Sonar team for hosting a forward-looking and well-organized event.
Written by Emre Dündar
Emre Dundar is the Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Oobeya. Before starting Oobeya, he worked as a DevOps and Release Manager at Isbank and Ericsson. He later transitioned to consulting, focusing on SDLC, DevOps, and code quality. Since 2018, he has been dedicated to building Oobeya, helping engineering leaders improve productivity and quality.
