2026-05-06 –, Ballroom
It's 2026, and you can now outsource your toil to a GPU cluster...and sometimes to a chip in your laptop. If you're brave, you can outsource your decisions there too. Tens of billions of dollars (trillions if you look at market cap) later, this newish tool's direction to jour is turning out deterministic software (my day job). Suddenly the bottlenecks for value delivery aren't where they used to be.
Drawing on tales from both my personal experience as a dev and others' on the infra-as-code side, we'll walk through where the bottlenecks now land...turns out, the hard part of building is still the hard part, it's just more obvious now. Then we'll figure out how to fit these new cybernetic exoskeletons in to deliver real, additional, value, end to end.
When Ian isn't slinging code in PHP, Go, or TypeScript, or helping tweak processes at companies to do those things more effectively, he's probably complaining about how they don't make cell phones like they used to, helping organize a handful of events and tools in the PHP community in Austin and beyond, or sharing memes with his wife (and by proxy the family's two cats). Catch him around the Austin DevOps, Go, or PHP scenes for a rant on programming languages, airlines, or utilities (yes, internet connectivity counts).