Wednesday
Room 2
16:00 - 16:30
(UTC+02)
Talk (30 min)
For God's sake, keep the nerds!
For God's sake, keep the nerds! - Stein Inge Morisbak Anyone can spin up an app, generate an API, and ship to production — without writing a line of code themselves. Top executives are declaring that technical expertise is becoming optional, that "anyone can be a technologist" without learning to code. Meanwhile, developers are reporting the opposite: FOMO, dread, and the sense that bad teams get worse with AI, not better. Both can't be right.
At Tet Digital, we ran a six-week Claude Code pilot across 6 teams and 30 developers, then rolled it out to 180. 90% reported higher productivity. But productivity isn't the whole picture: AI makes mistakes, so team practices for catching and correcting them matter more, not less; there's reduced learning, so skill development needs continued focus; the developer role is shifting toward orchestration and quality control; and like any tool, this one needs maturation, not just access.
In this talk, Stein Inge Morisbak (CTO) shares the concrete findings from the pilot, why Tet chose a deliberate three-step rollout with mandatory training and guardrails instead of an open tap, and why AI is best understood as an amplifier — one that makes deep technical understanding more valuable, not less. When anyone can ship, someone has to know what we're actually shipping.
