There is a new and shiny bias on conference talks. People talk about cutting edge / newest stuff, and don't talk about seemingly "boring" topics. Yet I find the

There is a new and shiny bias on conference talks. People talk about cutting edge / newest stuff, and don't talk about seemingly "boring" topics. Yet I find the concrete, actual, nuts and bolts, not cutting edge and practical stories of "boring" implementations very interesting. I think other people do too, because they identify with them more. The talk where we did X thing with Generative AI, with no problems, is the antithesis of this and almost comes across as a sales pitch for how awesome the team / product is we're building. Nobody learns anything if you don't present your actual failures. It's way more interesting to hear honest, actual, nuts and bolts engineering stories of real implementations IMO.