Lemi Orhan Ergin
Lemi Orhan Ergin is a software crafter based in Turkey with a passion for raising the bar of his profession and sharing his experiences with communities. He is the co-founder of Craftgate (One-Stop-Shop Payment Orchestration Platform) and founder of the Turkish Software Craftsmanship Community. He previously worked at Sony and eBay in various technical leadership roles. He has been actively programming since 2001. He is an active practitioner and mentor in hands-on programming and leading teams on engineering practices.
Sessions
When Code is Disposable...
AI is making code easier to write, rewrite, and throw away. But what happens when code is no longer the most valuable part of software? What if the way we've been taught to build, maintain, and protect code is becoming outdated?
For years, we've treated code as something to preserve. We've invested in clean code, reuse, and long-term maintainability. But AI is changing the economics of software development. Writing code is getting cheaper. Understanding what to build, why it matters, and whether it actually works is becoming more valuable. The biggest technical debt may soon be the decisions we forgot, not the code we wrote.
This talk challenges some of our deepest beliefs about software engineering. We'll explore why intent, architecture, and engineering judgment matter more than ever, and what developers must unlearn in the age of AI. If code becomes disposable, what should we never throw away?
