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DESCRIPTION:A few nights ago I was up to 2am obsessively crafting an LLM pl
 an. (_"Just one more prompt!"_ - famous last words). Yet it still did some
 thing inexplicably stupid. 🫠 So yeah: LLMs are both genuinely useful an
 d genuinely destabilising. Focusing on the first and ignoring the second i
 s how people burn out.\n\nThis talk is an honest account of what it feels 
 like to be a developer right now\, from someone inside it\, and some thoug
 hts on what might actually help. My thesis: we've been optimising for _mod
 el output_ when we need to be optimising for _human experience_.\n\nI'll s
 hare observations from my work\, peers and colleagues. The peculiar fatigu
 e of machine supervision: holding the intent in your head while the machin
 e generates volumes of mostly-correct output that still needs your eyes\, 
 your judgment\, and your taste. The way the satisfying part of the work sh
 rank while the exhausting part grew. The isolation of pair-programming wit
 h a machine\, and the loss of real human learning\, interconnection and co
 llaboration. And underneath all of it: uncertainty. About market condition
 s\, about employability\, about whether the skills we've spent years build
 ing will still matter.\n\nThe second half is about what's been working for
  me\, and what hasn't. On the human side: encouraging pairing and teamwork
  even when the tools push you toward isolation\, sharing the pain openly\,
  naming the uncomfortable thing. On the technical side: structuring your e
 nvironment to collaborate with LLMs more deliberately — writing plans\, 
 configuring project-specific rules. Learning when to stop prompting and ju
 st write code. And critically: rebalancing the push and pull of informatio
 n so that you're directing your attention\, not feeling at the mercy of th
 e model's output. More Star Trek\, less Black Mirror.\n\nLeave with concre
 te strategies for recalibrating your workflow\, challenges to discuss and 
 the reassurance that if you're finding this hard\, you're not broken. The 
 feedback loop is. And we can start fixing that.
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LOCATION:Chamber Hall A (S3A)
SUMMARY:The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired - Laura Summers
URL:https://programme.europython.eu/europython-2026/talk/HJ8KPY/
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