"Productivity: a dialogue" - Benno Rice, Daisy Leigh Brenecki (PyCon AU 2026)

(Benno Rice, Daisy Leigh Brenecki) What does it mean to be productive? If you work in software development that generally means shipping code, or at least changes to code. There’s always been a tension in how to measure the output of a software developer though, and that’s partly due to the at least partially creative nature of the work we do. So when a tool comes along and promises to make you more productive, how do you assess that? https://2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/SS9FAU/ python, pycon, australia, programming, conference, technical, developers, panel, sessions, libraries, frameworks, community, sysadmins, students, education, data, science Videos licensed as CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 PyCon AU is the national conference for the Python programming community, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers, sysadmins and operations folk, students, educators, scientists, statisticians, and many others besides, all with a love for working with Python. Licensed as CC BY-NC-SA - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Produced by Next Day Video Australia: https://nextdayvideo.com.au Fri Aug 28 10:45:00 2026 AEST (UTC+10) at Ballroom 3