Talks

• Building an AI team when no one knows anything about AI

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    By Matt Colman

    @matt_colman

  We started a brand new AI team with 14 engineers that have never touched AI before! We started madly learning about AI, LLMs, top-k, temperature, ALL THESE NEW WORDS!

  After 6 months, we’ve learned so much, we’re productive and it feels like we’re building something special.

  I’ll describe how we quickly became productive, tips to give a large team focus, methodical thinking and some examples how we’re really all just problem solvers.

  The audience will get a taste of what it’s like to start prompt engineering for the first time, how backwards it feels and how we can do better.

• Dependency Injection with React Context

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    By Erin Zimmer

  Dependency injection is a common software pattern, with clear benefits, including easier testing, and better reusability of code. While there are React dependency-injection libraries available, React doesn't provide a native implementation of this pattern. It does, however, provide useContext, which can be used to gain many of the benefits of dependency injection. Today, we're going to take a look at why you might want to use dependency injection, how you can go about doing it with useContext, and what the pros and cons are of this approach vs using a library.