Birger Halfmeier

Birger works with hundreds of engineering teams on cloud architecture and has developed an unfortunate habit of noticing patterns people were hoping to classify as isolated incidents. He has been building software professionally since 2004, which means he remembers when Agile was still demanding, pair programming involved two humans, and “digital transformation” had not yet absorbed every noun in the building. He may be the only speaker today trying to explain AI engineering through a 1940s essay on stupidity. He previously argued that frugality is not the same as being cheap. He has since discovered what is.