Shift 2025
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Beyond the IDE: The Future of Developing Software With Agents | Peter Zakin | 16m |
Claims that reliable coding agents (Copilot powered by CodeX, Composer/Cursor with Claude Sonnet 3.5, and Claude Code) enable two concrete shifts: task… | ||
| How to Build Autonomous AI Agents That Run Anywhere | Gift Egwuenu | 31m |
Builds a stateful travel-planning agent using the Cloudflare Agent SDK, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to call external tools (Amandus for flights, booking… | ||
| From ZERO to 300 Million. How to Grow Faster Ignoring the Likeability Brand Trap | Michal Pastier | 31m |
Gives concrete tactics from 350 projects and 250+ brand launches: choose three visual brand codes, build attention attribution (distinctive yellow, woodboard… | ||
| Playing D&D With AI: Building an Agentic Game Engine | Danijel Temrez, Rino Cala | 24m |
A combat engine is built that pairs LLM reasoning with explicit code so the model suggests actions while deterministic functions enforce rules, state, and… | ||
| Sell, Sell, Sell, Sell, Sell, Sell, Build | Stjepan Zelić | 30m |
Founder of a 2M€ ARR startup scales Hypy to 1.44M ARR and closes a €1.75M raise by selling early rather than waiting to build. Early stages use a PowerPoint… | ||
| State of Checkpoint/Restore in Kubernetes – Now With GPUs | Adriane Reber | 27m |
CRIU-based container checkpoint/restore is implemented end-to-end using CRIU + runc + CRI-O/containerd and lands in Kubernetes as an alpha in 2022 and beta in… | ||
| Navigating the World of AI Development Without Going Insane | KITZE | 12m |
Claims that frontend development is shifting to vibe coding where developers shape behavior by prompting LLMs rather than typing syntax, with concrete… | ||
| The Growth Matrix: Mental Models That Make Startups Scale (or Stall) | Olya Grovel | 28m |
Claims a repeatable four-step growth decision system used across 7 startups and coaching of 50 founders that cuts guessing out of scaling: spot decisions with… | ||
| Will AI (Finally) Replace Developers? | Alex Shershebnev | 27m |
Claims that LLMs plus tooling climb development “levels” to full automation by 2026–27, with agentic patterns boosting a benchmark from 6.3% to 35% when adding… | ||
| Fintech-Speed Banking: AI Blueprint | Ivan Filkovic | 24m |
Pragmatic AI blueprint used across 100+ real‑world models claims to retire legacy stacks by standardizing operational and analytical data on a Lakehouse… | ||
| YouTube – the Last Bastion of Authenticity | Tomaž Zaman | 18m |
YouTube functions as a direct sales channel: a 2 million views router-hack video turns into subscribers and investor leads, raising $300,000 raised to build a… | ||
| IRR-ational Returns? | David Clark, Toomas Bergmann, Tunya Irkad, Ghazanfar Iqbal | 31m |
Panel argues that IRR misleads until a fund liquidiates and prefers TVPI over IRR for apples‑to‑apples comparisons, using DPI to measure cash returned; target… | ||
| Contained Intelligence: Secure Sandboxing for Gen AI Code | Toma Puljak | 24m |
Demonstrates a working pipeline: Claude generates Python that is uploaded and executed in a Daytona sandbox via Daytona MCP, producing the correct SHA output… | ||
| Discover How to Streamline User Onboarding With Network APIs | Anthony Nevo | 25m |
Live demo uses a simple HTML/JavaScript front end and Node.js/Express server, implements authorization code (OIDC) to fetch a token and call a number… | ||
| Blazing Fast Page Navigation With Speculation Rule | Medhat Dawoud | 30m |
Chromium’s speculation rules API uses an inline JSON script to pre-render or prefetch targeted links (two slots, five-minute cache) with three eagerness modes… | ||
| Building SSDLC in an Enterprise Environment | Alen Adanic | 22m |
Company builds a secure SDLC on Open Shift Kubernetes after a gap analysis, POCs and a huge Excel of tools and pricing; platform choices include sonar cube for… | ||
| From Tables to Graphs: Agentic Graph Modeling | Dino Duranovic, Ante Javor | 19m |
HyGM (Hypothetical Graph Modeling) converts MySQL schemas and sampled rows into a proposed graph model, iterates via LLM-generated structured output plus… | ||
| 10 Billion Messages in a Day, How We Built the Infrastructure That Delivers | Josip Antolis | 28m |
61 datacenters, ~40,000 VMs and ~3,000 deployments per day support 10 billion messages a day across SMS, email, voice and chat; email peaks trigger a… | ||
| Evolving Search in Online Marketplaces: Practical Applications of AI | Mladen Fernižer | 30m |
Velebit AI describes concrete systems: image taggers (color and pattern APIs), fine‑grained categorization for marketplaces with thousands of categories, and… | ||
| Driving Intelligence: The Software Shift Shaping Tomorrow’s Cars | Danijela Škugor Markovic | 20m |
Built a homegrown stack for NEA that puts 40 ECUs down to 3 after starting with custom hardware, an in-house drive unit and inverter, and onboard software that… | ||
| Embracing Complexity: Lessons From Product Teams | Monika Piragic | 29m |
Teams extract six drivers of complexity but the talk focuses on a few concrete ones: the babushka problem (many hidden problems behind one proposed solution)… | ||
| App-etite for Disruption | Antonio Matušan, Iva Milevoj, Darko Ivancevic, Marko Kozjak | 27m |
App-based marketplace connects consumers to bakeries, retailers and restaurants to cut waste, already signing 300 partners and expanding across Croatia this… | ||
| Building AI-Powered Business Autopilots | Josip Ivkovic | 22m |
Demonstates Autorun.AI creating a tailored CRM and agents that integrate with Infobip via an MCP-style connector to capture WhatsApp SMS email and send… | ||
| Cut the SaaS: How I Saved Thousands With Kubernetes & Open Source | Eric Wendel | 25m |
Replaces multiple SaaS with a self‑managed Kubernetes cluster on Azure and open‑source apps, deploying Node‑RED, Postgres with nightly backups, Metabase… | ||
| The Growth Equation: 7 Essential Steps to Finding Product–Market Fit | Andy Budd | 11m |
Seven-step framework called the Growth Equation maps seven levers to exactly why growth stalls and where to act. Two case studies show concrete failure modes… | ||
| Can Research Drive Product Value? Lessons From Spam Detection | Emanuel Lacic | 20m |
Research on MMS image spam produces a deployable classifier that matches GPT4 Vision accuracy on benchmarks while slashing cost and latency. The team adapts… | ||
| Scale 2.0- From Vodnjan to New York | Diego I., Filip S., Domagoj B., Mirna H., Lucija R., Nikola S. | 24m |
An incubator runs a three‑step program: 12 startups train in Vodnjan, iterate in New York, then pitch at Shift Zadar, produced by InfoBIP and Entrepreneurs for… | ||
| Raising the Red Flag: Spotting Trouble Before You Invest | Božidar P., David C., Jana B., Lucija R. | 29m |
Investors list concrete red flags: 85% stake or any single investor owning a majority blocks future raises; overly fragmented cap tables with 10–30 small… | ||
| Talk Before You Scale: Media as a Founder’s Most Liquid Asset | Dina Hrastović | 27m |
Argues that media is a founder’s most liquid asset and gives concrete steps: define mission and roadmap, map signals for investors customers talent and… | ||
| Fund or Fumble: Spotting Bad Money Before It Burns You | Ghazanfar Iqbal, Filip Dragoslavic | 28m |
Crypto wallet Soulflare has 4 million users holding ~$20B, grew to $50M revenue in 2024 after a 15x oversubscribed 2021 seed but got rejected by ~200 investors… | ||
| I Didn’t Want to Change My Job, but Reddit Made Me Do It | Mirna Horvat | 26m |
Communities like Reddit have become influential in shaping developers’ career decisions. While these platforms offer diverse perspectives, relying on sporadic… | ||
| Breaking Barriers: Funding & Opportunities in the Balkans | Vuk L., Božidar P., Dusan O., Dina H. | 31m |
Regional investors report that 95% of AI startups have zero value, say hardware and cybersecurity attract new defense and supply‑chain funding, and Europe‑wide… | ||
| UX Is Frontend Only! Why Do I, Super Ninja Backend Developer, Need to Care About It? | Nina K, Luka R | 24m |
Good UX changes API shape, database schema and query plans: teams report 25 database requests per HTTP request and endpoints that return 100 MB of JSON for a… | ||
| AI Agents: How Do They Work and How to Build Them | Slobodan Stojanović | 26m |
Claim: anyone with basic JavaScript and an API key can build a working AI agent in minutes. Implementation is a controlled while loop that asks an LLM whether… | ||
| How to Deliver Adoption to New Tech Without a Faceplant | Craig McLeod | 31m |
Shows a practical framework: use Infobip and AWS as commodity building blocks, avoid immediate deep integrations, and test outside core systems with a skunk… | ||
| Mind the Gap Between Female Founders and Industry Disruption | Jeta Z., Hajdi C., Tunya I., Bernard I. | 29m |
Panelists argue that female‑led startups return more per dollar invested and give concrete regional numbers: 35% higher returns and women receive roughly 15%… | ||
| Should I Stay or Should I Go? The US Edition | Daniel J., Dusan O., Tunya I., Stefan D. | 28m |
Clear signals to move: a pull not push—an interested US partner, client or investor; or concrete traction like 100k monthly revenue. Expect to spend months on… | ||
| Is There Still Hope For Europe? | Olya G., Vedran B., Božidar P., Toomas B., Ivan BB. | 28m |
Panel argues Europe produces more cash‑positive startups and lower mortality than the US, but funding stays fragmented: raising up to €2–3M seed rounds is… | ||
| Cleantech in Space: Cool the Mothership | Marko B., Branimir R., Filip N., Bernard I. | 34m |
Startups describe a working CO2‑scrubbing panel that electrically breaks CO2 into solid carbon and breathable O2 for rooms or habitats (CO2‑splitting panels… | ||
| Lead Like a Bot, Think Like a Human: Navigating Leadership in the Age of AI | 34m | |
Concrete examples and tactics replace abstract advice: a VC built in‑house scrapers to find early founders and uses LLMs for competitive intel; a Croatian… | ||
| The Agent Experience (AX): Preparing for the Next 100M Developers | Matt Biilmann Christensen | 01m |
Argues that Agent Experience (AX) is a distinct design layer because agents are now deploying apps, calling APIs, and collaborating with humans at scale, so… | ||
| Bitcoin, Not Crypto: The Startup Journey Few Dare to Take | David K., Roy S., Adem B., Filip Đ. | 33m |
Three startups stick to Bitcoin only and show what’s actually built: Pocket Bitcoin runs automated bank-to-Bitcoin conversion that deposits coins into… | ||
| The Fine Art of Letting Go (Just Enough) | Stjepan Z., Jeta Z., Srdjan K., Tunya I., Olya G. | 29m |
Argues that founders must delegate with structure: hire for challenge not echo chambers, build systems and tooling so a team can scale (example: a company goes… | ||
| Rendering the Future: Building a Dev-First Library With Streaming & Server Components | James Q Quick | 30m |
Builds a React/Next.js component library (Vibes) that natively supports Server Components, streaming with Suspense, and partial pre-rendering so pages can be… | ||
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