I have an unarticulated proto-thought in my head that there is a systems perspective missing with respect to AI. It is missing in general, and I didn't see at #DDDEU where I perhaps had hoped to see it expressed.
Farewell Antwerp. Had amazing three days. Surrounded by so many brilliant minds, it felt almost surreal. Thanks @dddeu for a great conference!
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@dianamontalion gave the footnote (a term coined by @tekiegirl). She talked about knowledge flow, about that we are transitioning to build knowledge systems, and should value knowledge and learning higher.

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Frances Sun talked about how unintuitive UI often is the result of unclear processes and fuzzy domains. And just making the UI prettier does not address the real problems.

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@punkstarman gave advice and insight for when the ubiquitous language isn't English. The talk was very interesting and inviting and I attended because the question has been coming up for me repeatedly. Fun fact from my experience: 'get' in Swedish means 'goat' in English. So writing getNamn() can be read goatName().

He also answered @raniz question whether it should be colour or color in the code: color, because that is more common.
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Next on the main stage was @suksr . She reminded that we still need to focus on building the foundations for continuous change. She talked about architecture for flow and the guardrails for continuous change, none of which are new.
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Michael Feathers opened the conference today. He talked about how we gain skills and how those skills fade when we don't use them. He said that you cannot verify something without understanding it first. Michael gave some examples on how to use AI to verify understanding and help you deepen your understanding.
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I'm on my way home, DDDEurope 2026 is officially over. Next year it will be held in Amsterdam. I had a great time, met so many interesting and kind people, had great food, gave a talk (woooooohoo) and heard what interesting things others had to say.
A huge Thank You to the organisers!
I only attended talks today and will write a short summary about each of them.

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Thanks for having me #DDDEU, and congratulations on a great event for the 10th anniversary! It was very nice to meet old and new friends!
The one and only @RuthMalan is with us always! @diana at @dddeu.
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