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Look past the speculation and discover how programmable blockchains function as specialized operating systems to solve complex distributed engineering challenges. - **Speakers:** John Woods - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 26:13 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/999-why-you-should-care-about-the-decentralized-computing-movement) ### What AI Can, Can’t, and Shouldn’t do for Games Can generative AI design the next genre-defining hit? Uncover the legal risks and creative limits separating true game innovation from derivative, probabilistic algorithms. - **Speakers:** Romero - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 23:12 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/997-what-ai-can-can-t-and-shouldn-t-do-for-games) ### Mastering AI-Driven Problem Solving in Engineering with Observability Stop guessing in the dark during on-call emergencies. Master a systematic observability loop to resolve infrastructure bottlenecks and eliminate unique AI hallucinations using RAG and distributed traces. - **Speakers:** Jemiah Sius - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 27:39 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/994-mastering-ai-driven-problem-solving-in-engineering-with-observability) ### The transformative impact of GenAI for software development and its implications for cybersecurity Generative AI accelerates software development but secretly skyrockets your vulnerability rate. Discover why deploying security-trained AI is the only way to auto-correct these hidden flaws. - **Speakers:** Chris Wysopal - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 25:19 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/952-the-transformative-impact-of-genai-for-software-development-and-its-implications-for-cybersecurity) ### Quantum Computing - The tiny and the big challenges How do you debug code when physics prevents you from copying quantum states? Uncover the monumental hardware and software bottlenecks engineers must conquer to unlock commercial quantum computing. - **Speakers:** Alex Waldherr - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 28:26 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/934-quantum-computing-the-tiny-and-the-big-challenges) ### Opening Keynote: Civic Coding, A Framework for Democratic Tech From the Obama White House to the era of deepfakes, one truth emerges: technology is ethically neutral. Discover how civic coding empowers engineers to become true developers of democracy. - **Speakers:** David Simas - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 23:09 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/963-opening-keynote-civic-coding-a-framework-for-democratic-tech) ### JSON and Beyond Douglas Crockford asserts that JSON is incomplete for modern distributed systems. Discover why the creator of JSON is explicitly dropping 'null' in his new binary format, Nota. - **Speakers:** Douglas Crockford - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 18:40 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/968-json-and-beyond) ### Fireside Chat with David Heinemeier Hansson David Heinemeier Hansson claims it is time to collapse modern web complexity. Ditch massive AWS bills. Drop heavy build pipelines and embrace the raw simplicity of no-build development. - **Speakers:** David Heinemeier Hansson, Thomas Pamminger - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 34:27 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/980-fireside-chat-with-david-heinemeier-hansson) ### Fireside Chat with Kris Rasmussen, CTO at Figma Kris Rasmussen argues AI won't replace human craftsmanship. Instead, it will eliminate tedious boilerplate. Discover how Figma bridges the historical friction between freeform visual exploration and structured code. - **Speakers:** Kris Rasmussen, Thomas Pamminger - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 30:38 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/982-fireside-chat-with-kris-rasmussen-cto-at-figma) ### Collaborative Intelligence: The Human & AI Partnership Only 40% of developers fully trust AI-generated code. Discover how bridging this critical trust gap will shift software engineering from manual syntax tinkering to strategic systems thinking. - **Speakers:** Alejandro Saucedo, Demetris Cheatham, Jakob von Lindern, Prashanth Chandrasekar - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 31:56 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1097-collaborative-intelligence-the-human-ai-partnership) ### Software defines the vehicle: Why customers and developers will love cars even more The automotive future isn't defined by rigid hardware, but by adaptive software pipelines. Discover how AI-driven architectures are turning cars into the ultimate scale game for developers. - **Speakers:** Peter Bosch - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 27:17 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1114-software-defines-the-vehicle-why-customers-and-developers-will-love-cars-even-more) ### The Future of Open Source Open source built the modern web. Now, corporate extraction threatens its survival. Can Fair Source licensing save our critical digital infrastructure? - **Speakers:** Scott Chacon - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 27:21 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1124-the-future-of-open-source) [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/mainstage?page=6)