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With AIs Wide Open… - All Things Open 2025
Presented at All Things Open 2025 Presented by Chris Heilmann - WeAreDevelopers Title: With AIs Wide Open… Abstract: We are in the middle of a revolution of human and computer interaction. We're also in the middle of a ridiculous hype that burns money, up-ends the lives of people and changes the market we work in. How can we survive this change and come out as winners? How can we ensure that decades of open efforts aren't being taken over by corporate greed and hidden in closed environments? In this talk Chris Heilmann shows how this "revolution" isn't new but has been tried before and gives you active advice on how to make yourself indispensable in a world of agents and services. Open isn't dead, open just needs to lead the way. AI is here to stay and it is up to you to see it as a threat or as a chance to steer it into a good future. Find more info about All Things Open: On the web: https://www.allthingsopen.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AllThingsOpen LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/all-things-open/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allthingsopen/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AllThingsOpen Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@allthingsopen Threads: https://www.threads.net/@allthingsopen Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/allthingsopen.bsky.social YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@allthingsopen 2025 conference: https://2025.allthingsopen.org/
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With AIs Wide Open… - All Things Open 2025
- 1. With AIs wide open… AllThings Open 2025 Chris Heilmann, WeAreDevelopers
- 2. 30 years ofsneaking ”open” into my work… • Radio newscaster => quit, taught myself HTML and Perl • Agency work • eCommerce • Etoys.com - UK, US • DotCom crash • Government websites, larger clients • Enterprise CMS (India, UK) • Yahoo (yay open!) • Mozilla (even more open!) • Microsoft (lots of open) • WeAreDevelopers
- 3. WeAreDevelopers = Europe’sbiggest independent developer community Newsletter Podcast Live Show Magazine
- 5. “Open” means… • Accessfor all, independent of location or wealth • Access to functionality (APIs) with documentation • Access to code • In-built quality control (lots of eyes) • Longevity – people can build on your work • Building things that work • Following agreed procedures to ensure quality The current hype around AI is the antithesis of almost all of that.
- 6. AI overviews insteadof search results = the truth according to company X
- 7. AI Image andvideo generation = expensive, faux creativity without license considerations
- 8. Chat systems andresearch helpers = unsolicited scraping and bots serving bots
- 9. Agents browsing andbuying things… = a malware creator’s wet dream
- 10. • “AI” IDE= fork of Visual Studio Code with all security settings turned off. • AI features of these “free tools” costs you tokens • On average, this means $100k for a development team/year. AI aided development = subscription in disguise
- 13. * [Stack Overflowdata reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code](https://venturebeat.com/ai/stack- overflow-data-reveals-the-hidden-productivity-tax-of-almost- right-ai-code/)
- 14. Don’t trust thebots… •Only 33% of developers trust AI accuracy in 2025, down from 43% in 2024 and 42% in 2023. •AI favourability dropped from 77% in 2023 to 72% in 2024 to just 60% this year.
- 15. Fixing bad resultsisn’t fun… 66% of developers cite “AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite” as their top frustration 45% say debugging AI-generated code takes more time than expected. AI tools promise productivity gains but may actually create new categories of technical debt.
- 16. Writing or generatingcode should always aim to solve an issue. How much code we write in what time is a pointless metric…
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- 20. CEOs can nowdo production code! Our first outage from LLM-written code https://sketch.dev/blog/our-first-outage-from-llm-written- code?utm_source=tldrnewsletter
- 21. Finding the issue… “Thetrigger for the CPU spikes both times was our CEO logging in. We re-deployed to get a clean start, permanently banned him from the service, and moved on.”
- 24. Vibe coding fullproducts… = dubious, insecure legacy code
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- 26. We have aton of content! •Weekly newsletter with 150k subscribers •Weekly live show with guests •Magazine articles every few days •Podcast every few days •10 years WeAreDevelopers World Congress: • ~2500 – 3000 hours of talk and workshop footage x 10 • This year it is 12 TB of data
- 28. Indexing and remixing> Generating with AI
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- 30. Using AI tomake video more accessible…
- 31. Your dev skillplaylist…
- 32. Let’s talk aboutour jobs, longevity and how we deliver software.
- 33. Let’s talk aboutour jobs, longevity and how we deliver software.
- 34. Let’s talk aboutour jobs, longevity and how we deliver software.
- 35. Let’s talk aboutour jobs, longevity and how we deliver software.
- 36. How can junior developerslearn if they’re encouraged to let magical AI do everything for them? We learn by imitation and from mistakes.
- 37. A cognitive bias,where people with little expertise or ability assume they have superior expertise or ability. This overestimation occurs as a result of the fact that they don't have enough knowledge to know they don't have enough knowledge. Dunning-Kruger Effect … we made this bias the go-to effect of AI …
- 39. We protected theweb from corporate takeover before. We need to do this again.
- 40. Not by demonisingAI and the companies that succeed in it. But by taking part and offering alternatives…
- 41. AI can makeus more efficient; it can’t make us more creative or magically excellent at anything.
- 42. Let’s show theworld how the power, love and dedication of open can move this from marketing hype to the next level of human-computer interaction.
- 43. Free WeAreDevelopers World Congress Berlin,Germany 08-10/07/2026 (if you get picked as a speaker)
- 44. 10% cheaper! Free (ifyou get picked as a speaker) WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America San Jose, California 23-25/09/2026
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