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Coffee With Developers • Jun 2, 2025

The Environmental Impact of Software Development

Bjorna Kalaja

Refactoring for sustainability isn't an extra chore; it's simply good craftsmanship. Learn how applying SOLID principles naturally reduces your code's carbon footprint without organizational friction.

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Transitioning from traditional programming to software sustainability research

Early technical education and software industry experience form the foundation for specializing in environmental technology research.

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Defining sustainability and overcoming measurement perfectionism

Teams must abandon the requirement for perfect carbon emission measurements in favor of tracking consistent progress.

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Driving stakeholder buy-in for sustainable software practices

Communicating environmental benefits to management requires aligning sustainability metrics with business language and cost-effectiveness.

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Refactoring legacy code bases for better environmental impact

Refactoring serves as an accessible framing for implementing sustainability improvements within established software projects.

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Implementing SOLID patterns to improve energy efficiency naturally

Following established software engineering principles inherently results in more sustainable and highly optimized code.

#6 about 3 min

Evaluating the environmental cost of AI and vibe coding

The integration of generative AI tools into development workflows presents new challenges for global energy consumption.

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YK Sugi

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Open session

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September 25, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

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The Broken Rung: How AI is Rebuilding Software Development from the Ground Up

Tomislav Tipurić

Chief Technology Officer, Nephos

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Open session

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Vibe Coding Accessibility

Karl Groves

Focused on actively fixing accessibility

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Beyond the Vibe: Specs, Adversarial Review, and Engineering AI Development that Scales and Ships

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Ranjan Parthasarathy

Founder, CPTO/CEO at AXIOMSTUDIO.AI

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