Love Humans, Use AI 🇺🇸

The developer role is shifting. We specify, delegate, refine, and orchestrate more than we type actual lines of code. And honestly? It’s incredible. But it’s also… weird? Because between the productivity gains and the hype, something gets lost: us. This talk isn’t anti-AI, quite the opposite. It’s pro-human. We’ll explore the uncomfortable questions: What happens to the junior devs who never struggle through their first bug? If AI trains on AI output, where does that leave us? And when the code writes itself, what exactly are we here for?

And yet… What do we gain? Time. Space. The freedom to connect, to share, to think, to build things that matter. Remember those late-night debugging sessions with your developer friends, the magical, shared “aha!” moment when it finally clicked? That wasn’t about the code, or that fixed bug - that was about human brains buzzing together, and no artifical intelligence, however advanced, can replicate that.

Expect honesty, some existential questions, and zero “just add AI” solutions. If you’ve ever felt weird about how much your job has changed in the last two years — this one’s for you.