Adam Scholey
Senior Backend Engineer
Poole, United Kingdom
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My journey into software development began like many others - writing code in a web-based text editor on a shared hosting account... for fun!
After completing a few learn-to-programme books, I'd arrived - there was _LITERALLY nothing_ I couldn't build - in my head at least.
Only once I'd landed my first role in a team of actual professionals did the merciless reality check set in…
Over the last 10 years, I've enjoyed working with a wealth of technologies including PHP and Go, leading an engineering team responsible for managing at-scale mission-critical systems, supporting Webby Award-winning apps and mentoring others on their own developer journeys.
Away from a keyboard that makes code, you'll find me at a keyboard that makes music - writing songs, and recording piano medleys of AFC Bournemouth football chants to the amusement of my 4-year old daughter 🍒⚽️🎶
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AI is coming for your job
"Are we human, or are we dancer?" (Brandon Flowers, 2008).
The last two years have brought unparalleled change - mainstream adoption of automated code-generation, mass layoffs at a scale not seen in decades... and a winter World Cup!
With major breakthroughs happening by the week, the runaway AI train keeps gathering momentum and in the blink of a collective eye a chatbot can seemingly do our jobs. But what value-add remains for the thinking human? Or are we all just hanging around to be rendered gradually irrelevant?
In this talk, we'll look at what Generative AI is and most certainly isn't, why it can both help and hinder our function as software engineers, and how we can support our teams and communities to navigate an ever-accelerating pace of change.
We'll also examine the uniquely human traits that are indispensable, why the game has changed for Imposter Syndrome, and - amidst the worst mental health crisis in a generation - what steps we can take to protect our wellbeing, find calm amongst the chaos, and learn to embrace being "Human After All" (Daft Punk, 2005).
Keynote: 30 minutes
Adam Scholey
Senior Backend Engineer
Poole, United Kingdom
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