"Success isn't defined by being right. It's defined by how quickly we learn and adapt."
Chris Tite dropping the keynote truth at #DevConf Cape Town. The winners won't have the most AI tools, they'll be the ones who learn to work with AI best. 🎯
Whether you're a senior quietly worried about your next role, a junior trying to land the first one, or an introvert who'd rather rebuild Linux from scratch than mingle, Candice Grobler shows how to build a public surface area that compounds. #DevConf
Jessica Randall focuses not just on the data itself but on the story of its shape. Learn how persistent homology reveals how points connect, form clusters, and create holes, and how to visualize this process interactively with Kotlin. #DevConf
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Andrew Paul will demonstrate how AI amplifies our existing quality gaps. Learn practical approaches to testing that focus on impact over metrics, and the essential questions every team should ask when software moves beyond processing data to making decisions that matter. #DevConf
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Sometimes humans have undocumented behaviors, unpredictable responses, and no helpful error messages when something goes wrong. Tess Gouws will show how to troubleshoot: decode behavior and make better decisions with less emotional lag. #DevConf
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Anand Naidoo had 3 months to execute a complete banking migration after the sponsor bank exited. With customers actively transacting, salaries flowing, and money in accounts, there was only one option: perform a "financial heart transplant" on a running system. #DevConf
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With experience spanning research, impact, and evaluation at Click Learning and Harambee, Rob Urquhart will bring a deep understanding of workforce development to the question: What does the ICT job market in South Africa actually look like right now? #DevConf
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Graeme Harris has built everything from mobile apps handling car deliveries across Europe to mission-critical healthcare platforms. Now he will share the hard-won lessons of bringing AI to environments where reproducibility, security, and trust are non-negotiable. #DevConf
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Quinn Grace will walk through a live demo comparing two pieces of software with identical tech stacks but very different "human stacks" to illustrate what this looks like in practice and why it matters. #DevConf
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