Modern Software Engineering

VSH11 Agentic DevOps: How I Use Claude Code and Azure DevOps to Ship Code While I Sleep

11/19/2026

1:00pm - 2:15pm

Level: Intermediate

Mark Perry

Senior Developer

HHMI

What if your backlog items wrote themselves overnight? This session shows how I connected Azure DevOps work items to Claude Code, creating an automated pipeline that generates code, runs Playwright tests, and opens pull requests—all while I sleep. Every morning I review AI-generated PRs, verify test results, and deploy. I'll walk through the complete setup: Azure DevOps triggers, Claude Code configuration, Playwright test integration, and the guardrails that keep autonomous code generation safe. This isn't theory—I'm shipping production code this way across multiple applications right now. You'll leave with a blueprint to build your own.

You will learn:

  • Configure Azure DevOps pipelines to trigger Claude Code for autonomous code generation from work items
  • Implement Playwright testing as an automated safety net for AI-generated code
  • Build guardrails and review workflows that make overnight AI code generation safe for production