If “I will never write code again, and instead use AI to code” becomes the norm, what will programming conference talks look like. Most of those talks hinge on seeing someone stunt demo coding. But now you’ll just see them write prompts?
Like, seeing Josh Long tell Claude to help get demented pets adopted would be…boring…?
I mean, maybe he would do stand-up bits while you waited for Claude to return, which would be delightful, but it’d change the entire dynamic.
This applies to most any technical talk. You can image all past DevOpsDays talks being reduced to prompting the AI to, like, install Kubernetes the hard way.
You can even imagine that sessions at the DOES conferences would just be “connect to our HR system, Jira, and finance and tell me how to optimize our digital transformation strategy – make sure to look up Conway’s and Goodhart’s Laws, etc.”
If a large percentage of your audience is just going to return to work and program by promoting…showing them how to code with your fingers is an odd mismatch?
This means that conferences should start accepting “I’ll prompt Claude to code, showing people how to use Cool New Features in Whatever Tech Stack/Current Business Strategy Theory”?
Everything becomes something like “how to work with the AI to get your work done” rather than showing how to do the actual work.
Maybe the art of the conference talks becomes making waiting for that reply entertaining and figuring out how to visualize the outcomes beyond code and markdown.
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