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Instead, mastering the fundamentals landed them a role at the European Space Agency. - **Speakers:** Francesco Ciulla · daily.dev - **Event:** World Congress 2025 - **Published:** August 20, 2025 - **Duration:** 19:50 - **Thumbnail URL:** https://customer-goifxnzhrq3d0d54.cloudflarestream.com/8650d934833e83810055aa82ebb6a15a/thumbnails/thumbnail.jpg?time=30000ms - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1382-finding-your-way-in-tech) ### 402 - Payment Required For three decades, the HTTP 402 status code remained an untouched placeholder. Today, autonomous AI agents are forcing developers to finally standardize this missing machine-to-machine payment protocol. - **Speakers:** Brian Whippo · Algorand Foundation - **Event:** World Congress 2025 - **Published:** August 20, 2025 - **Duration:** 20:42 - **Thumbnail URL:** https://customer-goifxnzhrq3d0d54.cloudflarestream.com/86a17a8733454bc34f814e08775408bb/thumbnails/thumbnail.jpg?time=82665ms - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1381-402-payment-required) ### How AI Models Get Smarter Standardized benchmarks won't guarantee production success. Learn how test-time reasoning and agentic workflows are turning structured English into the modern developer's most powerful programming language. - **Speakers:** Ankit Patel · NVIDIA - **Event:** World Congress 2025 - **Published:** July 31, 2025 - **Duration:** 35:16 - **Thumbnail URL:** https://customer-goifxnzhrq3d0d54.cloudflarestream.com/e1b8c2b601185233e3f9db3df83f331d/thumbnails/thumbnail.jpg?time=118485ms - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1374-how-ai-models-get-smarter) ### Open Source AI, To Foundation Models and Beyond Closed AI is not naturally safer. Transparent access accelerates vulnerability detection, pushing engineers past generalized foundation models toward hyper-specialized, highly efficient edge computing. - **Speakers:** Andreas Blattmann, Ankit Patel, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Matt White, Philipp Schmid - **Event:** World Congress 2025 - **Published:** July 31, 2025 - **Duration:** 31:05 - **Thumbnail URL:** https://customer-goifxnzhrq3d0d54.cloudflarestream.com/cfbbdc24946692a935fb63f7109c8974/thumbnails/thumbnail.jpg?time=236805ms - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1375-open-source-ai-to-foundation-models-and-beyond) ### Official Opening of WeAreDevelopers World Congress Generating an AI image consumes the same energy as charging a smartphone. Uncover the hidden environmental costs of scaling artificial intelligence and learn to build intentional, energy-conscious solutions. - **Speakers:** Chris Heilmann · WeAreDevelopers - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 14:01 - **Thumbnail URL:** https://customer-goifxnzhrq3d0d54.cloudflarestream.com/07f97c25b7d95fb3d1e6cb27b0c1b44a/thumbnails/thumbnail.jpg?time=35955ms - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1138-official-opening-of-wearedevelopers-world-congress) ### The Data Phoenix: The future of the Internet and the Open Web Why do only 40% of developers trust AI coding tools? Discover how community-curated data and verified knowledge will reverse the LLM brain drain to save the open web. - **Speakers:** Prashanth Chandrasekar · Stack Overflow - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 35:06 - **Thumbnail URL:** https://customer-goifxnzhrq3d0d54.cloudflarestream.com/29b89e9f8015a34202ca53a676fa422a/thumbnails/thumbnail.jpg?time=180075ms - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1116-the-data-phoenix-the-future-of-the-internet-and-the-open-web) ### The shadows of reasoning – new design paradigms for a gen AI world Generative AI merely mimics true understanding, leaving enterprise apps vulnerable to logical traps. Learn a new design paradigm that makes large language models fully transparent and auditable. - **Speakers:** Jonas Andrulis · Aleph Alpha - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 25:14 - **Thumbnail URL:** https://customer-goifxnzhrq3d0d54.cloudflarestream.com/d9b230d401c14ea3dd6278dcda15eaad/thumbnails/thumbnail.jpg?time=233895ms - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1000-the-shadows-of-reasoning-new-design-paradigms-for-a-gen-ai-world) ### Why You Should Care About the Decentralized Computing Movement Did crypto-hype ruin decentralized computing for you? Look past the speculation and discover how programmable blockchains function as specialized operating systems to solve complex distributed engineering challenges. - **Speakers:** John Woods · Algorand Foundation - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 26:13 - **Thumbnail URL:** https://customer-goifxnzhrq3d0d54.cloudflarestream.com/cd658cad232d2f09463f3856adc7a9d1/thumbnails/thumbnail.jpg?time=86845ms - [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 · Romero Games - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 23:12 - **Thumbnail URL:** https://customer-goifxnzhrq3d0d54.cloudflarestream.com/238318c9f3ebb6d739e6b4c59dca11a6/thumbnails/thumbnail.jpg?time=52005ms - [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 · New Relic - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 27:39 - **Thumbnail URL:** https://customer-goifxnzhrq3d0d54.cloudflarestream.com/a30a4d87ea3e9010ba37c13558f88140/thumbnails/thumbnail.jpg?time=354275ms - [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 · Veracode - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 25:19 - **Thumbnail URL:** https://customer-goifxnzhrq3d0d54.cloudflarestream.com/9b272f00ff57029afeebe0f44d599ff9/thumbnails/thumbnail.jpg?time=246125ms - [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 · Quantum Society Austria - **Event:** World Congress 2024 - **Published:** August 20, 2024 - **Duration:** 28:26 - **Thumbnail URL:** https://customer-goifxnzhrq3d0d54.cloudflarestream.com/ddab11b76a9b55f1bab4f0043c3250a5/thumbnails/thumbnail.jpg?time=130785ms - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/934-quantum-computing-the-tiny-and-the-big-challenges) [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/mainstage?page=8)