Gerald Versluis

Software development was never about code. I used to define myself by the languages I knew and the frameworks I mastered. Then AI started writing most of my code for me, and... Why should I even care anymore what language or framework is being used anymore? I’ll be honest: I was an AI skeptical. The early tools felt like overhyped autocomplete. But today, I use AI every single day. Not as a gimmick, not as a replacement, but as a force multiplier. These days, I sometimes go days without even opening my IDE, and somehow, I’m more productive than ever! In this keynote, I’ll share my journey from skeptic to AI-native engineer, what actually changed in my daily work, and why this shift has less to do with tooling and more to do with thinking. When syntax becomes cheap, clarity becomes the real skill. This isn’t a hype talk. It’s not a doom talk. It’s about understanding that software engineering was never about typing code. It was always about solving problems — and AI just made that impossible to ignore.