Hywel Carver
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- LDX3 London (LeadDev London)2 editions2022–2024
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- Clare Sudbery14 talks
- Chelsea Troy9 talks
- Sorrel Harriet3 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| AI Access is not AI Ability A Cautionary Tale on the Importance of Dev | CTO Craft Con: Berlin 2025 | 2025-09-23 |
Claim: having ChatGPT access is not enough — teams need AI access ≠ AI ability and measured training. Recent Meta study shows developers expect ~24% speedups… | ||
| The Post Office Scandal | LeadDev London 2024 | 2024-06-11 |
Horizon (Fujitsu) misreports branch balances across 11.5k UK outlets, the system’s bugs lead to 983 convictions and ~4,000 people affected, with bankruptcies… | ||
| How to completely fail at learning | LeadDev Berlin 2023 | 2023-12-04 |
Claims companies are bad at learning and that targeted learning is about 66% more cost effective than hiring; lists six failure modes — leave it to the… | ||
| Hywel Carver at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | LeadDev West Coast 2023 | 2023-10-16 |
Claims that LLMs already handle implementation and boilerplate extremely well and will make ticket-to-code work near-instant, while humans must keep… | ||
| Build vs. Buy - a strategic decision for systems and people | CTO Craft Con: The Strategic CTO 2023 | 2023-05-23 |
Compares build vs buy for systems and for team skills using a Moscow analysis and a total cost of productivity model; cites 200,000 industry layoffs and a… | ||
| Success isn’t repeatable | LeadDev London 2022 | 2022-06-07 |
Claims that success isn't repeatable and that wisdom differs from knowledge and skill; learning models include Bloom's taxonomy and ICAP and a new triad… | ||
| Developing Your Developers’ Development: How Learning Can Have Impact and Why It Sometimes Doesn’t | DevDays Europe 2022 | 2022-04-27 |
Claims that skills come only from doing and that targeted capability training — personalized, problem-centered, expert-led practice — closes the gap between… | ||
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