DevEx & Productivity

The Productivity Illusion: What AI Really Changed for Developers

with Fatih Kadir Akın

Friday 25 September 4:50 PM – 5:20 PM Stage 2

About This Session

Everyone says AI made developers faster. But did it really? This session dives into the hidden layers of AI-assisted development: How it affects focus, flow, and trust. Drawing from real-world experience building AI tools and observing developer behavior, We'll reveal what we gained, what we lost, and what we must redesign to make productivity human again.

Topics

Advocacy
Agentic AI
Copilot
Developer Experience (DevEx)
DevRel & Advocacy

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Speaker

Fatih Kadir Akın

Developer Relations · WordPress/Automattic

Developer Relations at WordPress/Automattic

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Fatih Kadir Akın is a software developer and public speaker from Istanbul, currently working as DevRel at WordPress, Automattic. He is an award-winning GitHub Star recognized for his impact on open source and developer communities worldwide. Author of books on JavaScript and prompt engineering for AI tools, Fatih is passionate about the intersection of web technologies and AI-assisted development. He actively contributes to open-source projects, builds experimental tools on GitHub, and shares insights at conferences around the world. A strong advocate for open-source collaboration, Fatih specializes in JavaScript and Ruby (particularly Ruby on Rails). Beyond coding, he enjoys organizing tech events, mentoring developers, and exploring new ways AI can empower software engineers. He is also the creator of prompts.chat, a platform for discovering and optimizing AI prompts for large language models.