Welcome and Setup

Okay, folks, we're at capacity. Let's kick off. I don't want you waiting here for 25 more minutes before we some arbitrary deadline. So, welcome. My name is Matt. Uh I'm a teacher and I suppose now I teach AI. Um we have a link up here if you've not already been to this which is has the exercises for the um stuff we're going to do today. This is going to be around two hours. So we might just sort of kick off two hours from now. Is that right Mike? Yeah. Perfect.

Um, and the theory behind this talk or at least the thesis under which I've been operating for the last kind of six months or so is that we all think that AI is a new paradigm, right? AI is obviously changing a lot of things. You guys are obviously interested in this and that's why you've come to this talk. And I feel that when we talk about AI being a new paradigm, we forget that actually software engineering fundamentals, the stuff that's really crucial to working with humans, also works super well with AI. And this is what my keynote is on tomorrow. Really, I'm going to sort of be fleshing that out a lot more. And in this workshop, I'm hopefully going to be able to direct your attention to those things and uh hopefully show you that I'm right, but we'll see.

Um, can I get a quick heads up first? How many of you guys um are coding have ever coded with AI? Raise your hand if you've ever coded with AI. Perfect. Okay. Uh, keep your hand raised. Uh, let's all uh share those armpits with the world. Um, how many of you code every day with AI? Cool. Okay. Uh, ra keep your hand raised if you've ever been frustrated with AI. Okay. Very good. You can put your hands down. Thank you for that show of obedience. I really appreciate that.

Um, we are also being live streamed to the Gilgood room as well. I've not uh did we send someone up to the Gilgood room to just check they're okay? Don't know. But I see you. Uh, and there is a way that you can participate which is we have the um a Q&A. We're going to be doing kind I have a sort of hatred of Q&As's because they're not very democratic. The mostly the sort of um most talkative people get to um get to participate and share. And so we're going to be going through this um QA here. So why do we have to wait till 3:45? The room is packed. The doors are closed. 100% agree. And so if you want to uh ask a question, we're going to be I would like you to pile into this async and then we can vote on each other's questions and hopefully get the best question surface so the for the entire room to enjoy.