Don‘t let the AI hype break your mentality

The topic of “AI“ seems to be everywhere these days, especially for software developers. From claiming to be the problem solver for day to day tasks up to apocalyptic scenarios of replacing all jobs, the stories being told vary wildly.

Either you get caught by it and your thoughts just spin around how to be an early adopter, create a new service out of it, and see lots and lots of possibilities (often by ignoring real world needs and losing a rational base on decision making),

Or you get anxious about what AI could mean to your current role and your future career prospects. The media draws a picture of the world in which developers are forced to use AI to create new software, becoming a prompt operator and ultimately losing their job to the same AI.

But this fear of new overt-hyped technology taking away our jobs is not new. In the past many hypes appeared, some of them just vanished, some changed the way we live, communicate, consume media or travel. They can change the world, and so can we.

In my talk I want to walk through some generic approaching to handling a hype, how hypes affects our daily work, and what impact hypes may have on our mental stability.