David Rawson - Dangerous Minds: How we're getting developer education wrong
Dangerous Minds: How we're getting developer education wrong by David Rawson (Senior Android Developer @ Lightspeed Commerce)
Delivered at GDG Melbourne Devfest 2025
The limitations that we are starting to see in large language models should make us pause to re-evaluate the special place of human intellect in software engineering. We're careful to optimise our code, but are we optimising developer education so that the next generation of developers attain mastery of their craft in the minimal amount of time? This talk examines common advice aimed at beginners in Kotlin and Android development and shows how these can actually harm both codebases and, long term, the career trajectories of new software engineers.