As a developer, it's natural to want your code to be as efficient as possible. But what defines efficiency? The answer varies depending on who you ask. For those bootstrapping a new web app, minimizing friction on the path to your launch is often the primary goal. Achieving this requires a web stack that maximizes your developer experience. In this session, we’ll explore the real world journey of balancing developer productivity with the challenges involved when building a modern web app.

Performant Architecture for a Fast Gen AI User Experience

More and more developers are being asked to build Generative AI experiences into their web applications everywhere. However, the user's experience with Generative AI can sometimes be slow and frustrating. It’s been years since we would gladly wait over 10 seconds for a response to anything online. As AI processing gets faster, there are new limiting factors that could be negatively affecting your AI user experience.

In this talk, we will cover different ways to minimise laggy experiences in web applications when interacting with third-party Generative AI tools. We’ll be using a practical demonstration to show how you can reduce latency as we build one of my favourite sci fi gadgets, the babel fish.

Join Conor on a magical walk through a devtools Saas build with a cutting edge Next.js stack. He will discuss the different routes, design decisions, and tools considered and hopefully teach you some new things and invite you to challenge the choices he made.

Coding is difficult. But streamlined app creators are too limiting.

AI helps to bring these two extremes together in a way that removes barriers to entry while providing a lot of flexibility. Let’s explore how we can utilize AI app composers to increase efficiency, whether you are a developer or not—and what the most effective places to use them are.