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Adam Piotrowski — It is not so bad, after all (wroclove.rb 2025)

As the closing speaker of wroclove.rb 2025, Adam Piotrowski — CEO of 2NIT — replaces another speaker with a non-technical talk sharing stories of developer, client and project fuckups from his consultancy. Through seven vignettes (moonlighting developer, bogus seniority, a bullying partner client, an Indian handover that asked no questions, a Chinese crypto client fumbling documentation, an AWS Postgres pricing trap, a SOAP integration estimate 4x blown out, and a Norwegian Heroku coincidence) he extracts pragmatic lessons about trust, assertiveness, communication, cloud costs and supporting local communities.

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person Adam Piotrowski recommends person Andrzej Krzywda

person Adam Piotrowski attended event wroclove.rb 2022

person Adam Piotrowski attended event wroclove.rb 2018

talk It is not so bad, after all presented_at event wroclove.rb 2025

person Adam Piotrowski authored talk How wroclove.rb impacts developers and companies

person Adam Piotrowski has_skill concept Domain-Driven Design

person Adam Piotrowski authored talk It is not so bad, after all

person Adam Piotrowski uses tool rails_event_store