I Have Become a Language Model, the Confident Idiot. How AI "thinks" and why hallucinations are expected

What happens when you force a system to always produce an answer - even when it doesn't really know it?

In this interactive session, we'll become a language model and simulate how text generation actually works. Along the way, we'll uncover why models produce fluent but incorrect outputs, how sampling and context influence results, and why hallucinations are not a bug, but an expected outcome.

No math - just intuition, participation, and a better mental model for working with AI.

How AI stole my coding joy - can I get it back?
 

Don't expect tech deep-dives, shiny tools, or “ten prompts that will change your life.” This talk is about how it feels to be a software developer in the AI era, and what that shift has done to me.

The work I used to love looks very different now. Some of that change is useful. A lot of it is quietly uncomfortable. I’ll share the consequences I’ve noticed, the thoughts that keep coming back, and the parts of coding joy that got lost along the way.

Along the way I’ll run a few quick interactive polls, nothing fancy, just a way to see whether your experience matches mine, or whether we’re all going through something slightly different.

After the talk, I’d love a short open discussion. Maybe together we’ll find a remedy. Or at least name the problem more honestly.

Market differentiation by building a product on Drupal

The example of Open Intranet.

Display Builder, the HTMX-powered visual builder

Drupal is finally ready for a visual building revolution.

The current modernization and unification of many frontend APIs, thanks to the recent addition of HTMX to Core, is unlocking new easy ways of building modern, fast, highly interactive, user interfaces for both the admin and front UI, without the need of javascript frameworks.

One of those UI is the new Display Builder module, which is leveraging HTMX, alongside many recent additions to Drupal Core, to provide a display building experience both unified (page layouts, entity displays, content and more) and powerful (design system native, live previews, iterative updates, realtime collaboration, adaptive profiles…).

From this example, Pierre, a Core’s provisional front-end manager, will explore how we can modernize the UI of other Drupal modules, providing a reactive, world-class, user experience while keeping the implementation lean and maintainable.