Carmen Huidobro

A more and more common story: You're asked to add AI to a product. Not a chatbot. Not an AI platform. Just one small feature that needed to be smarter.
In this talk I'll share practical lessons from shipping a small LLM feature in production: how to keep the architecture simple, how to set guardrails, how to ethically communicate with your values, and how to decide when AI is actually the right tool.
This isn't the first time a big technology hype catches up to us and might creep us out at first, and this talk will look at this history, too.

“Alright I’ll just upgrade Typescript, aaaaaand everything is broken now”

Building a complex JavaScript project can feel like a tangled mess of yarn. Fear not, fellow developer! This talk will provide you with the tools and techniques to gently untangle your dependencies and knit a well-structured, maintainable codebase. Our basket of tools include using npm why as our yarn needle, breaking down tasks into manageable stitches, strategically upgrading for progress, utilising branching techniques to keep your project from unraveling, and much more!

Join us as we unravel the secrets of dependency management, leaving you with a project that’s not only functional but beautifully maintainable, stitch by stitch.