Lightning Talks!

Lightning talks are short presentations covering topics that may not be large enough for an hour-long presentation. Each presentation is followed by a brief Q&A.

Topics
AI-Assisted Coding (Peter Williamson) - experiences and findings with tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT in coding, including both the benefits and limitations of these tools.

Local Large Language Models (Peter Williamson) - experimentation with models like Llama 2 and Llama 3 and the potential benefits of using local models for proprietary code bases.

Rust (Christian) - the challenges and learnings from implementing a Unix-like shell in Rust, highlighting the benefits of using Rust and the Cargo ecosystem, memory management techniques, and an exploration of async programming in Rust.

Handling Symbolic Links in WSL (Christian) - an approach to handling symbolic links in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)