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# Videos

2662 videos · 28613 moments · 1461.1 hours of content

## World Congress 2025 videos

### The End of Software as we know it

The traditional PM-designer-engineer triad is obsolete. To survive the AI shift, teams must abandon rigid specs, embrace chaotic prototyping, and let multidisciplinary generalists ship production code.

- **Speakers:** Paul Adams · Intercom
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Published:** August 20, 2025
- **Duration:** 26:25
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1393-the-end-of-software-as-we-know-it)

### Building Systems that Last

Amazon S3 scaled to 300 microservices with zero downtime. Building evolvable systems requires cell-based architecture. Discover how to leverage efficient languages like Rust to survive extreme cloud scale.

- **Speakers:** Werner Vogels · Amazon.com
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Published:** August 20, 2025
- **Duration:** 34:36
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1389-building-systems-that-last)

### The future of Stack Overflow as the most vital source for technologists

While 80% of developers use AI tools, only 29% actually trust the output. See how Stack Overflow is ending endless debugging loops with human-validated knowledge.

- **Speakers:** Jody Bailey, Prashanth Chandrasekar
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Published:** August 20, 2025
- **Duration:** 31:10
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1390-the-future-of-stack-overflow-as-the-most-vital-source-for-technologists)

### Agents for the Sake of Happiness

AI isn't replacing software engineers; it's elevating them to conductors. Discover how synchronous and background coding agents eliminate boilerplate toil, maximizing your creative flow and developer happiness.

- **Speakers:** Thomas Dohmke · GitHub
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Published:** August 20, 2025
- **Duration:** 39:11
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1387-agents-for-the-sake-of-happiness)

### Software is the New Fuel, AI the New Horsepower - Pioneering New Paths at Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz is rewriting 130 years of automotive legacy. Software and AI are now their foundational horsepower. Discover how 200 petabytes of data drive this software-defined vehicle revolution.

- **Speakers:** Katrin Lehmann, Magnus Östberg
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Published:** August 20, 2025
- **Duration:** 18:05
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1388-software-is-the-new-fuel-ai-the-new-horsepower-pioneering-new-paths-at-mercedes-benz)

### Official Opening of WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025

Thomas Dohmke argues that developers are the quiet force behind every digital breakthrough. Watch the GitHub CEO trace the evolution from early Visual Studio to modern AI ecosystems.

- **Speakers:** Benjamin Ruschin, Sead Ahmetovic
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Published:** August 20, 2025
- **Duration:** 11:52
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1385-official-opening-of-wearedevelopers-world-congress-2025)

### The Future Past of Technology - A Game Developers POV

What if Fortnite and TikTok were the ultimate platforms for scientific research? Uncover how game engines are transforming advanced AI training and global education.

- **Speakers:** Johanna Pirker · TU Graz
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Published:** August 20, 2025
- **Duration:** 29:27
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1386-the-future-past-of-technology-a-game-developers-pov)

### The State of GenAI & Machine Learning in 2025

Generating code faster won't fix your entire development lifecycle. Discover why teams in 2025 must abandon isolated AI models and embrace secure, interconnected agentic systems for true productivity.

- **Speakers:** Alejandro Saucedo · Zalando
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Published:** August 20, 2025
- **Duration:** 26:47
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1383-the-state-of-genai-machine-learning-in-2025)

### Compose the Future: Building Agentic Applications, Made Simple with Docker

Building agentic AI applications is now as simple as running standard containers. See how Docker Compose integrates models as top-level primitives to streamline your multi-LLM architectures.

- **Speakers:** Jim Clark, Mark Cavage, Tushar Jain, Yunong Xiao
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Published:** August 20, 2025
- **Duration:** 50:09
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1384-compose-the-future-building-agentic-applications-made-simple-with-docker)

### Finding Your Way in Tech

A professor claimed this former volleyball coach would never succeed as a developer. 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
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- [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
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- [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
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- [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1374-how-ai-models-get-smarter)

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