Keynote: X-rAI Specs, Submarines and Juice

Presented at All Things Open 2025
Presented by Chris Heilmann - WeAreDevelopers

Title: X-rAI Specs, Submarines and Juice
Abstract: We are bang in the centre of a revolution, evolution or hype about AI. Everybody can be an expert on anything in minutes and Agents change research and computer use fundamentally. Or so we are told by the hype machine media. Let's take a closer look into this brave new world and detect what we can do to make it an open and useful experience.

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1. X-rAISpecs,
Submarines
and Juice
All Things Open 2025
Chris Heilmann, WeAreDevelopers

2. U 1206 - 14 April 1945

4. Karl-Adolf Schlitt

5. 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.

6. “Vibe Coding”

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

9. 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

10. 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
= almost every interaction we have with AI!

11. AI is terribly useful and is
here to stay!

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

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

14. AI aided development
= subscription in disguise

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

16. Vibe coding full products…
= dubious, insecure legacy code

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

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

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

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

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

22. More on that later…

23. Chris Heilmann
ChristianHeilmann.com
wearedevelopers.com
Developer-advocacy.com
[email protected]
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@codepo8.bsky.social
linkedin.com/in/christianheilmann/
Thanks!