Add The Last Software Engineer talk

[kentcdodds]

Summary

• Add a new WeAreDevelopers World Congress talk based on the Epic Product Engineer article.
• Frame the talk as a thought exercise about durable human judgment rather than a near-term prediction that software engineering is ending.

Testing

• node --input-type=module -e "import fs from 'node:fs/promises'; import YAML from 'yaml'; const talks = YAML.parse(await fs.readFile('services/site/content/data/talks.yml', 'utf8')); const talk = talks.find((entry) => entry.title === 'The Last Software Engineer'); if (!talk) throw new Error('Missing talk'); if (talk.deliveries?.[0]?.event !== '[WeAreDevelopers World Congress](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congress)') throw new Error('Unexpected event'); if (talk.deliveries?.[0]?.date !== '2026-07-09') throw new Error('Unexpected date'); if (!talk.resources?.includes('[article](https://www.epicproduct.engineer/the-last-software-engineer)')) throw new Error('Missing article resource'); if (!talk.description.includes('not here to tell you software engineering is ending soon')) throw new Error('Missing near-term clarification'); if (!talk.description.includes('most human and valuable')) throw new Error('Missing human-value framing'); if (!talk.description.includes('one year, or five years')) throw new Error('Missing prediction-confidence framing'); console.log(JSON.stringify({ title: talk.title, event: talk.deliveries[0].event, date: talk.deliveries[0].date, tags: talk.tags }, null, 2));"
• npm exec prettier -- --check services/site/content/data/talks.yml

  

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added a new talk titled "The Last Software Engineer" with resources, description, and tags, scheduled for July 9, 2026.

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• services/site/content/data/talks.yml

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

A new talk entry titled "The Last Software Engineer" has been added to the talks data file. The entry includes resources, a delivery event scheduled for 2026-07-09, relevant tags, and a multi-paragraph description.

Changes

Talks Data

Layer / File(s)	Summary
New Talk Entry services/site/content/data/talks.yml	A talk record for "The Last Software Engineer" is added with resources link, a 2026-07-09 delivery, tags (testing, javascript, bundlers, software architecture), and a folded description explaining the talk's focus on software evolution and maintainability challenges.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~3 minutes

Poem

🐰 A new talk joins the list with pride,
"The Last Software Engineer," a guide,
Where code and chaos dance in time,
A message woven into rhyme.
✨ The talks collection grows so bright! 🌟

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch cursor/add-last-software-engineer-talk-4ac5

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