"Skill Issue" - Benno Rice (PyCon AU 2025)

(Benno Rice) With the arrival of large language models and the generative tools built on them we have seen a huge increase in pressure to use these tools in our work. This worries me, but it's hard to easily explain why. Am I being paranoid? Or just overly opposed to a change that's inevitable? Is it just... a skill issue? I invite you to listen to me dig through the history of the relationship between automation, technology, and work to try to unpack my feelings on where our industry is headed. https://pretalx.com/pycon-au-2025/tal... python, pycon, australia, programming, conference, technical, developers, panel, sessions, libraries, frameworks, community, sysadmins, students, education, data, science Videos licensed as CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 PyCon AU is the national conference for the Python programming community, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers, sysadmins and operations folk, students, educators, scientists, statisticians, and many others besides, all with a love for working with Python. Licensed as CC BY-NC-SA - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Produced by Next Day Video Australia: https://nextdayvideo.com.au Sun Sep 14 12:00:00 2025 at Ballroom 3