Simon Emms
Simon has been working as a software engineer since 2006, in which time he's done work for the likes of Gitpod, DPD, Specsavers, British Pathé, the Red Cross and others. Initially specialising in the NodeJS ecosystem, he's used pretty much all of the major languages over the years and since 2017 has been focused on building DevOps solutions and Cloud-native applications that help engineers to work faster and more productively.
When not behind a computer he's a keen gardener, beekeeper and makes his own sausages.
Tech is broken and AI won't fix it
Session Type: 20 Minute Session
Tech is at a crisis point. Companies are complaining about a lack of skilled engineers, but won't recruit junior engineers to train up. Agile was designed to improve productivity, but ceremonies are followed ritualistically with little consideration of value. Recruitment often focuses on meaningless trivia rather than preparation for the job at hand.
The current trend in industry is to look to AI as a panacea. Unless we solve the underlying issues, AI will compound these and many other problems rather than being the solution.
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