X-rAI Specs, Submarines and Juice

A presentation at All Things Open in October 2025 in Raleigh, NC, USA by Chris Heilmann

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X-rAI Specs, Submarines and Juice All Things Open 2025 Chris Heilmann, WeAreDevelopers

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U 1206 - 14 April 1945

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Karl-Adolf Schlitt

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Using state of the art technology to release your shit as fast as possible out into the world is not a good idea. Especially when people handling that technology haven’t been properly trained on it.

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“Vibe Coding”

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January 6th, 1995 Pittsburgh bank robberies Clifton Earl Johnson McArthur Wheeler

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Dunning-Kruger Effect 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.

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Dunning-Kruger Effect 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. = almost every interaction we have with AI!

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AI is terribly useful and is here to stay!

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The way ”AI” is sold and applied right now is the antithesis of “open”

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Chat systems and research helpers = unsolicited scraping and bots serving bots

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AI aided development = subscription in disguise

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AI overviews instead of search results = the truth according to company X

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Vibe coding full products… = dubious, insecure legacy code

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AI Image and video generation = expensive, faux creativity without license considerations

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Agents browsing and buying things… = a malware creator’s wet dream

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We protected the web from corporate takeover before. We need to do this again.

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AI can make us more efficient; it can’t make us more creative or magically excellent.

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Let’s show the world how the power, love and dedication of open can move this from marketing hype to the next level of humancomputer interaction.

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More on that later…

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Thanks! Chris Heilmann ChristianHeilmann.com wearedevelopers.com Developer-advocacy.com gmail@christianheilmann.com @codepo8@toot.cafe @codepo8.bsky.social linkedin.com/in/christianheilmann/