# Chris Lienert — AI Engineer Sydney 2026

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## Assert Chaos


Once a product reaches the wilds of production, all sorts of things can go wrong. Carefully logging and monitoring are one thing, but what if we could do better?

Bring new levels of code stability by recreating the ‘cat on a keyboard’ randomness of production with a chaos test agent. This talk goes through what it takes to implement chaos test agents on a budget and what they can do when unleashed in a production environment.

## Chris Lienert

Senior Principal Engineer, Smart AI Connect

Chris started out as a web developer when Netscape ruled the world and works as a Senior Principal Engineer at Smart AI Connect. Aside from musical distractions and accumulating frequent flyer points, Chris and his wife Sarah can be found in the company of their not-so-small human.

## Conference

- [Conference overview](https://webdirections.org/ai-engineer/index.md)
- [Agent guide](https://webdirections.org/ai-engineer/for-agents/)
- [llms.txt](https://webdirections.org/ai-engineer/llms.txt)