A presentation at All Things Open in in Raleigh, NC, USA by Chris Heilmann
X-rAI Specs, Submarines and Juice All Things Open 2025 Chris Heilmann, WeAreDevelopers
U 1206 - 14 April 1945
Karl-Adolf Schlitt
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.
“Vibe Coding”
January 6th, 1995 Pittsburgh bank robberies Clifton Earl Johnson McArthur Wheeler
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.
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!
AI is terribly useful and is here to stay!
The way ”AI” is sold and applied right now is the antithesis of “open”
Chat systems and research helpers = unsolicited scraping and bots serving bots
AI aided development = subscription in disguise
AI overviews instead of search results = the truth according to company X
Vibe coding full products… = dubious, insecure legacy code
AI Image and video generation = expensive, faux creativity without license considerations
Agents browsing and buying things… = a malware creator’s wet dream
We protected the web from corporate takeover before. We need to do this again.
AI can make us more efficient; it can’t make us more creative or magically excellent.
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.
More on that later…
Thanks! Chris Heilmann ChristianHeilmann.com wearedevelopers.com Developer-advocacy.com gmail@christianheilmann.com @codepo8@toot.cafe @codepo8.bsky.social linkedin.com/in/christianheilmann/
for free. You
can too.