Berlindroid: Coding for Fun - Not Profit

A lighthearted discussion about the love of coding, the learning process, our community, and how not to lose sight of that in the light of the overwhelming push for AI dominance.

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1. Coding for Fun - Not Profit Berlindroid - August '26 ashdavies.dev
2. Hype Driven Development "How I learned to stop worrying and love the failures" ashdavies.dev
3. Solutions Looking for a Problem • Augmented / Virtual Reality • Blockchain • LLM / NLP • Wear OS Companion Apps ashdavies.dev
4. CEO Driven Development ashdavies.dev
5. Familiarity / Risk Aversion • Dependency discomfort • Lack of maturity • Learning curve ashdavies.dev
6. Decision Fatigue ashdavies.dev
7. Law of the Instrument “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” — Abraham Maslow ashdavies.dev
8. Developmental Development • Novel solutions require creativity • Training through experimentation ashdavies.dev
9. Knowledge Sharing ashdavies.dev
10. Berlindroid ashdavies.dev
11. · · Story Time "Terraform" jamescullimore.dev/5-minute-bedtime-stories-for-android-devs.html
12. "Today I Fucked Up" ashdavies.dev
13. Understanding the Journey ashdavies.dev
14. Understanding the Process ashdavies.dev
15. ! ashdavies.dev
16. AI "Reasoning" ashdavies.dev
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19. "Good Enough" ashdavies.dev
20. Idempotency / Predictability ashdavies.dev
21. Hallucination Testing ashdavies.dev
22. "AI Native" College Graduates futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai
23. "AI" isn't intelligent ashdavies.dev
24. Anthropomorphism ashdavies.dev
25. youtube.com/watch?v=iitq4Zrphdk
26. What Can We Do? ashdavies.dev
27. Agentur für Arbeit Bildungsgutschein / Umschulung ashdavies.dev
28. Open Source / Playground Projects ashdavies.dev
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30. Work / Life Balance • Build for disposability • Open Source contribution ashdavies.dev
31. Understanding the Machine ashdavies.dev
32. Owning Your Code ashdavies.dev
33. "Claude wrote it, so it should be fine right?" ashdavies.dev
34. AI Burnout ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout
35. Guardrails ashdavies.dev
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37. ! ashdavies.dev
38. ! ashdavies.dev
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40. IKEA ashdavies.dev
41. Data Sovereignty ashdavies.dev
42. Stop trading away your personal credibility jonas.do/writing/2026-08-01-stop-lending-your-credibility-to-ai/
43. Stay Curious, Stay Creative ashdavies.dev
44. Thank You! ashdavies.dev
45. Thank You! - We are all Fucked An Android Developer’s Guide to the Post-AI Apocalypse next.app · Berlin '26 Thu - 14:50 · droidCon Stage 3 ashdavies.dev