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DESCRIPTION:Some codebases let you ship a change in minutes. Others turn a 
 one-line fix into weeks of investigation.\n\nThe difference is often not s
 kill\, tooling\, or even architecture—it’s cognitive load.\n\nIn this 
 talk\, we’ll look at real examples from long-lived Python systems to und
 erstand how inheritance\, deep nesting\, excessive abstraction\, microserv
 ices\, and over-applied DRY silently increase the cost of change.\n\nYou
 ’ll learn practical heuristics to recognize high cognitive load early an
 d concrete strategies to reduce it—so your team can move faster without 
 rewriting everything.\n\nThis is a pragmatic engineering talk for develope
 rs who work in real production code\, not greenfield demos.
DTSTAMP:20260524T121934Z
LOCATION:Theatre Hall (S2)
SUMMARY:The Hidden Cost of Complexity: Reducing Cognitive Load in Python - 
 Jarosław Śmietanka
URL:https://programme.europython.eu/europython-2026/talk/UGM7F8/
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