Cloud Native Days Warsaw 2026 Keynote – Zen AI Cohabitation: How I learned to embrace the slop

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Cloud Native Days Warsaw 2026 Keynote – Zen AI Cohabitation: How I learned to embrace the slop

AI now drafts our posts, edits our videos, and writes our code, and companies expect their teams to embrace it without asking what that costs our creativity or our mental health.

In Zen AI Cohabitation: How I Learned to Embrace the Slop, Josh Lee, Open Source Advocate at Altinity, and Adriana Villela, Principal Developer Advocate at Dynatrace, look at how the AI boom reshaped the technology industry and how we can lean on our AI minions to produce meaningful, creative, non-slop work.

Catch the keynote at Cloud Native Days Poland 2026 on October 22 at Varso Tower in Warsaw.

Our tech lives are surrounded by AI. Everywhere we look: social media posts, videos, blog posts, and code. Companies expect employees to embrace AI, but at what cost? And what’s it doing to our mental health? While it’s satisfying to create with AI, it feels like we’re also losing a bit of our humanity and creativity along the way.

In this talk, Adriana and Josh look at how the world of technology has changed due to the AI boom, and how we can lean on our AI minions to produce meaningful, creative, non-slop work.

About the Presenters

Joshua Lee – Open Source Developer Advocate at Altinity

Whether it’s operators or observability, agile or accessibility, his expertise shines because he is passionate about all of it. He’s been building software for more than a decade, and he loves sharing experiences via public speaking. He is currently a Developer Advocate for Altinity, where he helps create educational content about ClickHouse® and OpenTelemetry, and he is a contributor to the OpenTelemetry project.

Adriana Villela – Principal Developer Advocate at Dynatrace

Adriana Villela is a blogger, host of the Geeking Out podcast, CNCF Ambassador, and maintainer of the OpenTelemetry End User SIG. By day, she focuses on Observability and OpenTelemetry as a Principal Developer Advocate at Dynatrace. By night, she climbs walls. She also loves capybaras, because they make her happy.

In past lives, Adriana managed both a Platform Engineering team and Observability Practices team at Tucows. She has also worked at various large-scale enterprises as both an individual contributor and leader, including Bank of Montreal, Ceridian, and Accenture.