Build Stuff 2025
2025-12-03..2025-12-05
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| title | author | length |
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| Unleash the Power of AI Agents with Java Building Intelligent Application | Juarez Barbosa Junior | 53m |
Shows Java code that actually builds RAG pipelines, vector search and agents using LangChain4j and Spring AI, stores embeddings in Oracle AI Database with a… | ||
| From fear to air embracing over the air app updates | Mangirdas Kazlauskas | 39m |
Shows concrete ways to push changes without App Store approvals: using Firebase Remote Config and Crowdin to swap copy, RevenueCat to edit paywalls live, and a… | ||
| The Podcast Pipeline Nobody Sees: Behind the Scenes with AI Agents and AI gen | Serg Masís | 35m |
A fully automated research pipeline collects gigabytes from social, papers, videos and GitHub, transcribes audio with Whisper, scrapes with Selenium fallbacks… | ||
| Unleashing AI in Your Web Apps | Gil Fink | 30m |
Claims that running small models in-browser eliminates the typical 20ms latency problem, improves privacy and supports offline use by running Gemini Nano via… | ||
| Modern Graph Databases | David Ostrovsky | 49m |
Graph databases remain a niche but are growing for analytics and AI: Neo4j runs replicated graphs with trillions of edges and billions of nodes and avoids… | ||
| Large Multimodal Models: Understanding the State of the Art in Compute | Agata Chudzińska | 28m |
Tracks the concrete shifts from CNNs to transformers and large multimodal stacks: ViT 16×16 patches replaces local convolutions, CLIP (400M image–text pairs)… | ||
| One Does Not Simply Make Architecture Decisions Alone: ADRs and Architec | Vladas Diržys | 39m |
Claims that architecture is literally a set of decisions and that writing them down reduces bias, with the startling anchor 35,000 decisions a day. Shows an… | ||
| From Logs to Fixes: Teaching AI to Maintain Software | Artur Naumenko | 42m |
Built a pipeline that freezes logs, feeds them to an LLM agent (Claude), maps trace lines to source files, generates fixes, creates GitLab issues and merge… | ||
| Building Trust in Teams | Richard Campbell | 41m |
History includes building an appliance company that sells in 2013 and advising startups, but the practical claim is this: trust grows from specific routines… | ||
| Agentic AI: The Next Evolution of Automation | Alex König | 40m |
An AI agent is an LLM plus explicit tools, short‑ and long‑term memory, and a planning loop using REACT prompting; standards like MCP and Agent2Agent enable… | ||
| Toxic Trust: The Psychology of Automation Bias in Generative AI | Matthijs van der Veer | 44m |
Shows automation bias causes real failures: ChatGPT-generated abstract gets accepted then ridiculed; GitHub Copilot suggests bubble sort and hides… | ||
| Stop Doing Things People Hate Do What They Love Instead | Dean Schuster | 46m |
Claim: simply squash bugs and make it faster — those two fixes address the biggest complaints and deliver outsized gains; a Herzman Hornbeck study finds four… | ||
| Automate your software design How far we can get and how the AI chan | Marcin Samsonowski | 44m |
Shows how to turn design into code: keep docs and diagrams in the repo, use docs-as-code (Markdown + static site), store Architecture Decision Records as… | ||
| The Unbearable Weight of Architecture | David Whitney | 45m |
Argues that architecture’s harm is measurable: over‑uniform tech choices (serverless, Cosmos DB, “everything a microservice”) create sprawling surface area… | ||
| Semantic Kernel: the magical way of integrating LLMs into you | Darius Povilas Girininkas | 36m |
Semantic Kernel is an open-source .NET SDK that turns a three-method console to‑do app into an AI-powered system using Llama 3.2 (4GB) locally and GPT5 Mini in… | ||
| From months into days: minimizing business development time to value with AI | Juho Nevalainen | 37m |
Claims that AI cuts “time to value” from months into days by agentizing planning, not just code, with a live ServiceNow demo that interviews users, creates… | ||
| Forking the Future: Embracing Microservices Evolution | Mohamed Taman | 57m |
Argues for a clone backend + DB + pipeline for each team so features ship immediately while teams progressively strip domain code into services, using an API… | ||
| RedwoodSDK: Full Stack React, Built on Web Standards | Aurora Walberg Scharff | 38m |
Redwood SDK packages Vite + TypeScript + React around web standards and Cloudflare workers so every route is literally a function taking a Request and… | ||
| The History of NET | Richard Campbell | 17m |
Chronicle of how .NET actually forms: Microsoft stitches together a common runtime pushed by Brian Harry, a new C-like language from Anders Hejlsberg later… | ||
| Hyper Innovation in Exponential Times | Maks Giordano | 45m |
Argues that generative AI and connected hardware are moving from science fiction to practical tools: text-to-video quality leaps, robots can teach other robots… | ||
| Next js: Build a State of the Art E commerce in Fullstack React | Sebastian Nilsson | 45m |
Built a production e-commerce with Next.js that combines server-rendered HTML, client interactivity, and CDN-friendly static pages; uses Next.js 16 cache… | ||
| How to connect your systems to AI Tools with MCP Servers | Cecilia Wirén | 39m |
Shows how to build an MCP server in C# / ASP.NET Core using JSON‑RPC 2.0 over HTTP and the Model Context Protocol so AI agents like GitHub Copilot can call… | ||
| Algorithms Demystified | Dylan Beattie | 51m |
Breaks algorithms into concrete claims and demos: recursion as a tower-building recursion trick, binary search halves a sorted 360-word dictionary to find a… | ||
| Psychedelic Wisdom, Purpose, and AI Cultivating Team Coherence in a Digital Age | Michelle Manjarrez | 38m |
Argues that an overactive default mode network locks teams into rigid mental loops and reduces creativity, and that unblocking requires working the four bodies… | ||
| Modern NET Configuration Practices | Chris Ayers | 44m |
Code-heavy demos and GitHub samples show modern .NET unifying JSON, env vars, command-line, Azure Key Vault, and Azure App Configuration feature flags into a… | ||
| Responsibility Driven Design Revisited | Ian Cooper | 45m |
Argues that Responsibility-Driven Design is the missing foundation under DDD and shows concrete modeling tools: write a design story, pull out candidates, and… | ||
| Client side Web AI Agents Building smarter user experiences for a future age | Jason Mayes | 29m |
Prototype demonstrates a browser agent that parses voice, extracts structured JSON, and calls existing page functions as tools to book flights and change… | ||
| Slow and boring: Secrets to building reliable software | Dorota Parad | 37m |
Argues that achieving real reliability requires organizational changes not just tech choices: commits to five nines for critical routes with a team under 20… | ||
| What is Linux kernel keystore and why you should use it in your next app | Ignat Korchagin | 43m |
Linux kernel keystore stores keys as kernel objects inside session keyring and other ring types, accessible by add_key or requested on demand with request_key… | ||
| Event Sourcing dealing with an eventful past | Hannes Lowette | 43m |
Claims that storing append-only streams with sequence numbers (not state) recovers history, removes DB locks, and shifts compute out of the database for easier… | ||
| Responsibility Driven Design Revisited | Ian Cooper | 45m |
Claims Domain-Driven Design is incomplete without Responsibility-Driven Design and shows how to find behavior first, then assign roles and responsibilities… | ||
| How to Effectively Move From Ideation to Implementation | Amber Vanderburg | 45m |
Practical method to turn ideas into results: prioritize urgency over vague importance, narrow focus to one goal and define starting line, finish line, deadline… | ||
| Build without limits: lessons learned from using generative AI dev tool | Ricardo Sueiras | 39m |
18 months of using AI coding assistants shows measurable gains and clear limits: teams report faster prototyping and higher productivity but the single biggest… | ||
| Code, Calm, and Control Stoicism in Software Engineering | Vito Minheere | 31m |
Claims that Stoic practices cut stress, sharpen decisions, and reduce burnout by reframing what developers can control, with trichotomy of control and the… | ||
| Organized chaos adopting GenAI at Enterprise | Denis Chichmaryov | 34m |
A 60,000‑person engineering firm starts GenAI adoption March 2023, crowdsources >2,000 internal use cases in a week, and forms a SWAT team to deploy and… | ||
| Building advanced RAGs with Elasticsearch OpenSearch | Liza Katz | 37m |
Walks through building a production RAG using Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, showing concrete steps: chunking and embeddings for clean vectors, indexing tens to… | ||
| The amplified developer: zero to shipped in 30 mins with AI Coding Ass | Ricardo Sueiras | 46m |
Live coding builds a fact‑checking app from empty directory to a running AWS URL in about 30 minutes using an IDE fork called Kro, a CLI agent, Finch… | ||
| Building Scalable RAG Pipelines with Java and Kubernetes | Mohammed Aboullaite | 42m |
Shows a microservice RAG stack built in Java that actually runs on Kubernetes: a stateless orchestrator calling a retriever backed by Weaviate and a generator… | ||
| From Code to Cashflow: How Devs Can Turn SaaS Ideas Into Revenue Backed | Donatas Jonikas | 47m |
Shows how to validate demand before writing code with concrete tactics: build a landing page, run ads, and capture a waiting list; aim for pre-sales with real… | ||
| Applied Psychology: Psychology based UI improvements | Keren Kenzi | 35m |
Explains concrete UI fixes: apply Gestalt proximity and the law of prognance to remove dividers and group items into cards, use zebra rows for tables, enforce… | ||
| Becoming Visionary FutureMakers Innovating at The Edge of The Unknown | Ozioma Egwuonwu | 48m |
Claims a four‑stage visionary futuremaking framework — desired visions, current‑state assessment, transformational commitment, and new‑paradigm prototyping —… | ||
| The Undersea Infrastructure | Richard Campbell | 41m |
Undersea cables carry 97% of internet traffic, with ~1,700 active cables and 100–200 faults per year; modern systems use repeaters about every 100 km, ships… | ||
| KEYNOTE | Robert Edward Grant | 58m |
Claims a new 12-point perspective — a doubling Metatron's cube construction box that allegedly draws dodecahedra and Archimedean/Catalan solids without… | ||
| RepoSwarm: Giving AI Agents Architecture Context Across All Your Repos | Roy Osherove | 44m |
RepoSwarm automatically clones hundreds of repositories, runs Cloud Code / agent SDK prompts inside a Temporal orchestration, and commits an architecture hub… | ||
| Life by Design: Self Leadership in the Age of AI | Steph Houle | 45m |
Argues that upgrading your inner system matters more than new apps, claiming people must move from Human OS 1.0 vs 2.0 by adopting seven concrete practices… | ||
| Prompt Darwinism: Evolutionary Engineering in the Age of LLMs | Serg Masís | 49m |
Argues that hand‑tuned prompts are brittle and demonstrates evolution of prompts using Genetic Pareto Optimization over generations with a NodeJS front end and… | ||
| Why is this so hard: The cognitive and coordinative work of software development | Laura Maguire | 46m |
Argues that most software effort is hidden cognitive and coordinative work, backed by eight years of engineer studies plus forty years of cognitive systems… | ||
| Using Temporal Workflows for Seamless Dev + Research Collaboration & Continuous Algo D | Roy Osherove | 42m |
Temporal is used as the backbone to run production ML pipelines where Temporal workflows hold orchestration and researcher-written activities are reusable… | ||
| Rewiring the Hidden Code That Runs Your Life | Nita Chakrabarty | 41m |
Claims that five unconscious patterns — five unconscious wounds (rejection, abandonment, humiliation, betrayal, injustice) — silently drive burnout… | ||
| The AI Factor: The Blueprint for Intelligent Deployment | Asha Saxena | 37m |
Claims that 95% of AI projects fail to deliver measurable value, that an enterprise rollout of an LLM to 80,000 employees sees only 20% adoption, and that a… | ||
| Scaling Vinted: A System That Never Stands Still | Žilvinas Verseckas, Ignas Kukenys | 37m |
Vinted documents moving from a Rails monolith on MySQL to sharded MySQL with Vitess, then modularized in-place and split into coarse-grained services with… | ||
| From Hype to Impact: Real World AI Strategies Teams Can Use Today | Nikky Kho | 45m |
Describes launching AI venture houses that spin up businesses from zero to revenue in 30 days using prompt engineering, no-code platforms and integrations like… | ||
| Beyond the AI Hype: What's Real, What's Next | Richard Campbell | 43m |
Traces AI from neural nets to large language models, citing ImageNet 84%→100% as the turning point, GPU-driven Azure scale, and GPT3 375 billion parameters… | ||
| The Past, Present, and Future of Brain Computer Interfaces | Rolando Masís Obando | 40m |
Survey of concrete advances and limits: invasive arrays (Utah, microelectrodes) and stentrode via jugular insertion give high‑SNR control but suffer… | ||
| Leadership Guide for the Reluctant Leader | David Neal | 47m |
Argues that leadership without a title means earning influence through respect, ownership, and encouragement rather than rank; names three learning… | ||
| Human 2.0 Activating the Most Intelligent Technology | Genevieve Dowling | 34m |
Argues that cellular molecular hydrogen restores energy and reduces brain fog, cites the Molecular Hydrogen Institute’s ~3,000 studies and H2 certification… | ||
| Functional programming in F# Fad or Fabulous | Ken Bonny | 46m |
A runnable drone-tracking demo shows F# integrated with .NET: Wolverine for HTTP and messaging, Entity Framework for storage, and NUnit/XUnit for tests; code… | ||
| JMeter + GitHub = Understandable performance of your application | Eligijus Petrikonis | 36m |
Shows how to run JMeter + GitHub Actions to automate JMeter JMX runs, collect JTL results, parse throughput JSON, and fail CI when thresholds miss. Includes a… | ||
| Build Stuff wasn’t just a conference — it was a portal. | 03m | |
Claims Build Stuff is a portal between tech and creativity and lists partners and sponsors while promoting an Early Bird special Buy 2 tickets → 500 EUR each… | ||
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