As a Solutions Engineer at Atlassian, Chris Davidson works with clients in an effort to make the most of Atlassian's tools and has first-hand experience of how we adapt to using AI.
Voice AI may be sold as a model problem, but the real bottleneck is whether the system can survive real-time demands, stay reliable, and do it at a cost that makes sense.
Luis Velasco works as a Forward Deployed Engineer at OpenAI. For him, code is becoming very cheap to produce, while building the system around the model is becoming critical.
Dana Lawson leads R&D at Netlify, overseeing engineering, product, and design. From where she sits, she sees the real shift clearly: one person or a tiny team can now cover far more ground.
NVIDIA’s Igor Dmochowski explained that LLMs are no longer limited just by model size or benchmark scores; the cost of longer reasoning means runtime, context length, memory use, and throughput matter just as much.
Two-thirds of organizations run AI workloads on Kubernetes, but only 7% do it daily. Katie Gamanji says the ecosystem still needs better operational maturity and standards.
Figma’s Designer Advocate argued that AI can make prototypes look finished too early, which can hide dangerous assumptions.
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