What only a few years ago started out as smart tab completion turned into a way of working in which a growing number of programmers don't even bother to open up an IDE anymore. Let's take a moment to contemplate the changing nature of software engineering as a profession, and to explore chances to avoid looming disaster.
Gabriela Bogk
It's been more than 40 years since Gabriela first touched a computer keyboard. Becoming a hacker at a young age out of necessity, it's not like you could buy computer games in East Germany, she learned how copy protection schemes work, setting the foundation for a lifelong passion for a deep understanding of computers and getting them to do things they weren't supposed to do. The passion turned into a career of 30 years in tech, more than 20 of them in information security. She's been active in numerous roles at the Chaos Computer Club over the years, and after a colorfuil career in many roles is currently earning a living as CISO of mobile.de - selling used cars is a very ethical path, considering all the options in cyber security. But it's not just security, Gabriela also has a passion for programming languages, having been the core maintainer of open source Dylan compilers for many years, even being paid for maintenance of a Lisp compiler for a while. But if a job needs to be done, more often than not she reaches out for Python to this day.
