Laís Carvalho
Laís Carvalho works on growth and developer content for Logfire, the observability platform from the team behind Pydantic, writing and building across the Pydantic AI ecosystem. In March, she organised and moderated a panel on open source in the age of AI with Guido van Rossum.
On the community side, she's a PSF Fellow, a EuroPython Society Fellow, and a 2024 PSF Community Service Award recipient, with a long history organising Python community events. She also builds with the same tools she writes about, which is the only reason she's qualified to tell you most of your AI output is slop. She'd know. She's produced plenty of it.
Session
Most of us now talk to our computers like we did in the 60s, through a terminal. The difference is what is on the other side. Along the way, we stopped writing code by hand.
This talk is about what that costs and what it buys. Treating AI systems with awe hides what they can't do and hands us back plausible slop. Named precisely, as a tool that drafts, reviews, searches, or automates a specific chore, it becomes something that can be tested, questioned, measured, and optimised.