From AmigaBASIC to AI
A personal journey from my first lines of BASIC on the Amiga to the question of how AI will shape the next generation of developers.
Photo by Niels Luigjes
On , I was in Berlin at the Entwickler Summit. There I gave the presentation “Von AmigaBASIC bis KI: Eine persönliche Zeitreise durch 4 Jahrzehnte Softwareentwicklung”.
Softwareentwicklung hat sich von einfachen Anfängen bis zu KI und Automatisierung rasant gewandelt – dieser Vortrag zeigt, warum das Verständnis dieser Entwicklung für alle Programmierenden heute entscheidend ist.
More informationI am Sebastian Bergmann. I started writing PHPUnit in 2000 and still maintain it. In the same year I gave my first talk at a PHP conference. As a co-founder of thePHP.cc, I help teams in training courses and through consulting and coaching with everything related to PHPUnit, with quality gates for working with LLM-based coding agents, and with supply chain security.
I helped start the PHP Foundation and serve on its board. I have also represented the interests of Open Source at the European Commission and am active in the Open Source working group of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik).
Where you can meet me next is listed under events. The next dates of my training courses are in the training overview.
A personal journey from my first lines of BASIC on the Amiga to the question of how AI will shape the next generation of developers.
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