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The Hidden Techical Debt Crisis: When Non-Engineers Write Code - Felix Aldam-Gates - ACCU 2025
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As coding languages get more human readable and writable and AI tools become more easily available, roles that were once non-technical are starting to utilise the power tools of computers: coding languages. This talk focuses on some roles that demand writing code, managing data and automating workflows despite having no formal training in Software Engineering. When teams function like software engineering groups but lack the foundational practices and tools to ensure reliability, maintainability, and security, the consequences include inefficiencies, avoidable errors, and an unmanaged technical debt machine. This talk explores the challenges for software engineers that could bridge the gap between necessity and expertise, hoping we can ensure decades of software engineering progress aren't lost.
Slides: https://accu.org/conf-previous/accu2025/
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Felix Aldam-Gates
Felix Aldam-Gates is a problem-driven Software Engineer who has worked at the Office for National Statistics for the last 4 years. He enjoys bodging technology together in unnecessary and petty ways to address real life problems: for example, creating an IoT system that shamed housemates for using the hot and cold taps when the shower is in use. Felix has also been involved in extracurricular activities, such as serving as the President of the Judo Society, helping run FLL (a Lego competition held for local primary schools) and being a University Ambassador on open days.
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The ACCU Conference is the annual conference of the ACCU membership, but is open to any and all who wish to attend. The tagline for the ACCU is 'Professionalism in Programming', which captures the whole spectrum of programming languages, tools, techniques and processes involved in advancing our craft. While there remains a core of C and C++ - with many members participating in respective ISO standards bodies - the conference, like the organisation, embraces other language ecosystems and you should expect to see sessions on C#, D, F#, Go, Javascript, Haskell, Java, Kotlin, Lisp, Python, Ruby, Rust, Swift and more.The ACCU Conference is a conference by programmers for programmers about programming.
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