Marlene Mhangami
Conference 15–17 July · Kraków, Poland
@marlenezw
AI IS THE NEW ELECTRICITY!
Andrew Ng (Stanford, Coursera)
Credit: AI@Oxford — Mike Wooldridge
AI IS MORE PROFOUND THAN FIRE AND ELECTRICITY
Sundar Pichai (CEO, Google)
Credit: AI@Oxford — Mike Wooldridge
AI IS God
Anthony Levandowski (church of AI)
Credit: AI@Oxford — Mike Wooldridge
ChatGPT reached 100 million users in just two months.
| Rank | Website | Monthly visits (billions) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 101 | |
| 2 | YouTube | 47 |
| 3 | 9.9 | |
| 4 | 5.7 | |
| 5 | ChatGPT | 5.24 |
Source: semrush.com/website/top
Source: JetBrains & Python Software Foundation — 25,000+ respondents
Raw ingredient: the internet — ~45 TB of text (Common Crawl, WebText2, Books, Wikipedia).
It completes text — it doesn’t answer you yet. That’s the next recipe.
new AI projects created in the past year
Source: GitHub Octoverse 2025
Where do Python developers stand?
AI is already a new substrate for a lot of new innovation, ideas and creations and I’m here for it. It has moved beyond being a curious tool.— Armin Ronacher
Your employer non-consensually turns you into the verification system: the AI does the fun part of performing the work, and then you do the boring part — checking if the robot is right and cleaning up its messes.— Glyph Lefkowitz
I keep struggling to find ways to try them the right way, the way that people I know and otherwise respect claim to be using them.
— Glyph Lefkowitz, “I think I’m done thinking about genAI for now” (2025)
There’s a train going very fast in some direction. You don’t want it to crash. You can’t stop the train — but you can steer it so it doesn’t hit the rocks. We want to do things the right way.
— Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, interviewed by Oprah (2025)
Those of us who share the valid criticisms of Big AI, but who also believe machine learning could be helpful if made more accountable, have been waiting for tools that are made the right way.
— Anil Dash, “(One) Good AI is here”
You don’t have to accept the tools given to you. You can build your own.
Pi harness by Mario Zechner, part of Armin Ronacher’s company Earendil
github.com/earendil-works/pi
A widely accepted definition today:
An AI Agent is an LLM that calls tools in a loop to achieve a goal.
How coding agents think, act, and iterate
copilot-instructions.md — GitHub Copilotcursor rules — Cursorclaude.md — Claude Codeagents.md — OpenAI (becoming a standard)Increasing Input Tokens Impacts LLM Performance
@mcp in extensions for vetted serversSKILL.MD file an agent invokes to complete a taskGet the slides at aka.ms/europython26