In software we celebrate progress with new tools, shiny frameworks, and ever more ambitious stacks. Yet many of our hardest problems remain unchanged, we just relocate the complexity and call it innovation. This session examines why “progress” often becomes motion disguised as advancement, and how that illusion quietly damages delivery, reliability, and team morale. Using real engineering patterns, premature scaling, over-layered architecture, and adoption driven by hype or status, we will break down how well-intentioned decisions create friction, slow feedback loops, and brittle systems. You will leave with a sharper way to evaluate change: how to tell novelty from value, when to embrace new tech, when to resist it, and how to choose approaches that produce measurable outcomes rather than a new logo on the stack.

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