WeAreDevelopers LIVE - Smoover - Who's Best at DevRel?

With AI traffic overtaking human traffic, how do you prove your DevRel is working? This talk introduces a new index to measure what truly matters.

#1about 2 minutes

The resurgence of in-person events in the age of AI

AI-driven content saturation is causing a renewed demand for genuine human interaction through in-person meetups and events.

#2about 4 minutes

Debating the ethics and speed of AI development

AI companies like Anthropic are publicly discussing the need for a development slowdown while also pushing enterprises to match their rapid release cycles.

#3about 5 minutes

How bot traffic is overtaking human internet usage

Cloudflare data shows that AI and bot traffic has surpassed human traffic for the first time, raising questions about measurement and content consumption.

#4about 5 minutes

A roundup of recent AI and open source security threats

Several recent security incidents highlight vulnerabilities, including an Instagram AI chatbot exploit, a worm affecting Microsoft's GitHub repos, and malware delivered via LLM chat pages.

#5about 3 minutes

An overview of the AWS Football for Good hackathon

The upcoming hackathon at the WeAreDevelopers Congress features a significant prize pool and is designed to be accessible to all skill levels, with no prior AI expertise required.

#6about 4 minutes

Useful developer tools for CLI and local LLM workflows

Explore a collection of developer tools including an ASCII art generator for CLIs, a guide to running local LLMs with Ollama, and Microsoft's new coreutils for Windows.

#7about 3 minutes

Understanding and optimizing the rising cost of AI

The shift to token-based billing for services like GitHub Copilot highlights the growing cost of AI, prompting the use of tools for cost comparison and local model testing.

#8about 4 minutes

Playing a round of "Fake or News" with recent tech headlines

The hosts and guest play a game to guess whether bizarre tech headlines, from AI mishaps to crypto blunders, are real or fake.

#9about 5 minutes

Introducing Smoover, a new index for measuring DevRel

Smoover is a new tool that indexes and scores companies on their developer relations activities across five key pillars: code, education, community, reach, and momentum.

#10about 3 minutes

The data collection and analysis process behind Smoover

Smoover uses a combination of deterministic scripts, the GitHub API, and LLMs to gather raw data and analyze qualitative aspects like sentiment and documentation quality.

#11about 5 minutes

Addressing challenges of bias and gaming in DevRel metrics

The discussion covers the challenges of creating a fair comparison tool, including the potential for gaming the system and the skewing effect of large platforms like GitHub.

#12about 4 minutes

The future DevRel Coach and the strategic value of DevRel

The upcoming DevRel Coach feature aims to provide actionable improvement tasks, highlighting the often-undervalued role of DevRel in both external and internal company education.

#13about 5 minutes

Building Smoover with a modern serverless tech stack

The creator of Smoover shares the development journey and tech stack, which includes Lovable for the MVP, Claude for complex logic, and Superbase for the backend.

#14about 4 minutes

Debating automated fixes versus manual learning in DevRel

A discussion on whether tools like the DevRel Coach should automatically create pull requests or simply provide guidance to encourage learning and ownership.