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title: "Slides: \"The engineer of the future is the person who is able to choose what is worth doing.\" — Addy Osmani"
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# Slides: "The engineer of the future is the person who is able to choose what is worth doing." — Addy Osmani

## Source Video
["The engineer of the future is the person who is able to choose what is worth doing." — Addy Osmani](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n97BCfyFIvw)

## Relationship To World's Fair 2026
These slides are extracted from a verified official AI Engineer World's Fair San Francisco 2026 recording. Use them as slide and OCR evidence; official schedule pages remain canonical for titles, times, rooms, tracks, speakers, and affiliations.

## Related Scheduled Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-addy-osmani-closing-keynote]] — Closing Keynote

## Extracted Slides
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