Adding AI isn't the answer if you haven't found the problem yet. And right now, we're adding a lot of AI without asking nearly enough questions.

We'll start somewhere unexpected — the humble date field — and use it to unpick why so many AI implementations frustrate rather than delight. Because the problem is rarely the AI itself. It's the thinking that happened before anyone wrote a line of code.

We'll go back to thinking about the problem itself — and build something that makes our users truly joyful, not something to make marketing smile.

This is not a development session with demos. The focus is on thinking through good AI use cases and how to make better decisions for your users — relevant to developers, architects, and product teams equally.