The IFIP WG10.4 Summer meeting was in Charlotte this year. Part of the agenda is research reports: a slot where attendees share whatever they are currently thinking about, no finished paper required.
I could have used mine on fault injection, benchmarking, or vulnerability detection, the usual territory this group knows me for. I wanted something different. So I stood up in front of dependability and fault-tolerance researchers and talked about Alfred Adler.
Identity, Ethics, and Cooperation in the Age of AI: The Adlerian Software Engineer and the Adlerian Classroom (more on the talk itself here.). A psychiatrist who died in 1937, handed to a room that spends its professional life thinking about failure modes and redundancy.
I was not entirely sure what to expect. What I got back was curiosity, real questions, a few conversations afterward that went further than the slot itself had time for.
Turns out that people who understand failure better than almost anyone is exactly the right audience to hear about what we can do with the feeling of not being enough.