Development PracticesEnding Keynote60min
Title: AI Didn’t Replace You. It Promoted You!
This talk explores how AI agents are transforming engineers from coders into decision-making builders. Drawing on early adopters, it shows how agents can automate chores, boost impact, and preserve focus—while raising a deeper question of professional identity: can engineers evolve fast enough to stay relevant?
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Victor RenteaVictor Rentea Consulting SRL
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Wednesday, April 29, 17:15-18:15
CINEMA
We’ve always been rewarded for writing code, debugging systems, and mastering frameworks. But today, AI no longer just assists - it builds, analyzes, debugs, and reasons, so our role gets upgraded to "builders" taking decisions, and achieving outcomes. But as our attention lifts up from code, how can we remain in control and keep the product quality high? - many senior engineers are concerned. Compiling lessons from early adopters of agentic engineering, this talk shows how AI agents can handle chores, preserve our mental energy, and amplify our impact across the system, turning us into super-charged builders.
But this is not a talk about tools. It’s a talk about identity.
Because the real question today isn’t: “Will AI change my job?”
It’s: “Will I evolve fast enough to stay relevant?”
But this is not a talk about tools. It’s a talk about identity.
Because the real question today isn’t: “Will AI change my job?”
It’s: “Will I evolve fast enough to stay relevant?”
Victor Rentea
With 20 years of experience, Victor is a Java Champion who has trained thousands of engineers from over 150 companies in a large variety of domains. The lessons learned from these sessions, he shared in countless educational talks, top-rated at major conferences, where he’s known as ‘the speaker with the soundboard’. In his spare time, Victor runs 1:1 individual coaching sessions and organizes online meetups for the European Software Crafters community. More on https://victorrentea.ro