Hello, my name is Shaik Zillani & I’m a Senior Software Engineer at Mavenir Systems, Bengaluru. I work mostly on open cloud native technologies, specializing in kubernetes & application deployments. These summits had talks of how to deploy & manage AI workloads on kubernetes and case study of vibe-coding & some other interesting talks. This is my third Kubernetes conference & my first Opensource summit conference. The current 2026 conference held at Jio World Center, Mumbai. In this blog post, I would highlight only those topics which I personally found to be interesting & valuable.
OpenSource Summit
Tuesday June-16 2026:
It was very exciting to listen to the fire-chat conversation live, b/w Linus Torvalds & Dirk Hohndel. They did these fire-chats in the past many times, you can check on youtube. But Linus is here for the first time in India & listening to him live offcourse was very exiting for everyone.
He talked about the future of Linux & integration of Rust, what is Linus current role in maintaining the Linux kernel. And also, about the vibe-coding culture. Linus mentions that vibe-coding great for his pet projects but for the maintainer standpoint it’s a nightmare. It may solve the issue on the top layer but the real bug is inside waiting to show up at any point of time. So merging a code from the person who is long associated with the community is easy for him to merge because he believes in trust, he doesn’t really look at the entire code changes but the explanation about what changes are coming in.
He personally like C because it’s very simple, he is person who loves using simple tools like for example chainsaw tool over complex machines. He also highlights that if a tools is simple then there are good chances of making mistakes.
KubeCon
Wednesday June-17 2026:
thing emphasised in the conference was that Softwares needs to be in opensource if we need to innovate at the pace the technology is evolving. Thanks to all the sponsors who made the event happen.
Jonathan Bryce, executive director, CNCF says, “With Indian global market leadership and ranking third in terms of CNCF committers, Indian contributors are setting the pace for AI-native innovation, which is set to help close this gap. The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India schedule reinforces and supports the growing need for retraining and upskilling to meet the inference needs of this new era of AI.”
Indian AI market is expected to grow by $32Billion from ($6B in 2024). So, it’s right time to learn AI, building the agents or how to deploy them.AI Compute distribution in 2026 is more on AI inference, stats show 67% is on Inference & 33% on training.
What I learned?
I interacted more than listening to the talks, I missed a few by spending more time at the tables esp. in the kubecon, who re-presented their projects. I was also listening to other people’s interactions, which was even more interesting because it teaches how to see problems from other’s perspective how ideas originate. I saw lot of young people who are still in college trying to innovate in opensource, I heard from them. I learned that maintainers are facing issues with the volume due to AI assisted code, I personally feel that Vibe-code should not be used for everything except he boiler plate, otherwise it’s making us loose the code muscle or even may be dumb to solve the problems. There are reports coming from coderabbit that AI assisted code is 2.74x more security vulnerable code compared to a human code. The project Curl stopped its bug bounty program due to AI assisted PR volume. JetBrain banned AI for Zig programming language. Jazz Band project got closed due to AI Assisted PRs creating 1.7x more issues.