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💡 Building trustworthy AI without enterprise budgets or breaking compliance rules. Abed Matini showing how to design RAG systems that work in real-world South African conditions. #DevConf2026

💡 Structured training, protected flow time, adjusted feedback mechanisms.
Frikan Erwee demonstrating how metrics guided specific, meaningful interventions. #DevConf2026

🎤 "Sometimes humans have undocumented behaviors, unpredictable responses, no helpful error messages" - Tess Gouws on how to troubleshoot and decode behavior. #DevConf2026

⚡ Zach Smith demonstrating how upgrading systems improves more than interface, new architecture, usage metrics enabling quick support and deeper user understanding. #DevConf2026

Fadzayi Moyo mapping the four horsemen undermining AppSec programs: Visibility Gaps, Fragile Toolchains, Culture Wars, Uncontextualised Risk. #DevConf2026

The always awesome Tess Gouws - Debugging humans. A practical guide to surviving humans at work. @devconfza #DevConf2026

🎤 "Ever wanted to validate automation pipelines without waiting for cloud runners?" Steve Yonkeu simulating GitHub's environment locally, even offline. #DevConf2026

💡 License fee extortion, zero community libraries, pure frustration. Warren Fletcher sharing false starts and how they ultimately led to success building backup power systems. #DevConf2026

⚡ From upgrade dread to automated bliss. Renette Ros sharing successes, failures, hard-won lessons from testing and deploying recipes at scale. #DevConf2026