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SUMMARY:Thou Shalt Not Make a Machine in the Likeness of a Senior Engineer
  - Major Hayden
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DESCRIPTION:Somewhere in Dune's backstory\, a group of war-weary humans wr
 ote a commandment into their bible: thou shalt not make a machine in the l
 ikeness of a human mind. It's one of the most quoted lines in the entire s
 aga. The real reason behind it wasn't just "the machines got too smart." H
 umans had quietly handed those machines their judgment\, and they woke up 
 one day having forgotten how to make decisions for themselves.\n\nSounds f
 amiliar?\n\nThis talk tackles a very current\, very specific fear: the fea
 r of change\, now supercharged by AI\, LLMs\, and coding assistants. Not t
 he constant "tech moves really fast" fear engineers have always carried. T
 his one is different. This one whispers that your hard-won expertise might
  be losing value in real time\, that the field now moves faster than you c
 an track\, that you're losing the craftsmanship you spent a career buildin
 g. If you've felt that in the last few years\, you're not imagining it\, a
 nd you're not alone.\n\nLet's use Dune as a lens to examine how a society 
 can answer that exact fear in two different\, equally tempting\, equally w
 rong ways. Then we'll look at what actually works better.\n\nExpect an hon
 est\, occasionally funny\, deeply Dune-flavored case for how technical peo
 ple can hold onto their expertise and relevance. You don't have to reject 
 the tools. You don't have to hand over your judgment to them either. No do
 om-posting (but yes\, Dune-posting)\, no hype\, no easy answers. Just a cl
 earer way to think about this fear going forward.
LOCATION:Lil Tex
URL:https://pretalx.com/txlf2026/talk/FM99UQ/
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