CascadiaPHP 2024
24 - 26 Oct 2024 at University Place Hotel and Conference Center

This was probably the most engaging and useful time spent at CascadiaPHP.
I think Josh cleverly moved away from moot discussions on AI theory and ethics (more appropriate for computer scientists and academics), and rather focused on the tools available for us developers. He effectively showed how we can take advantage of the - rather stunning - powerful AI technology, to either augment our coding performance, or using open-source AI models to build better and more useful apps.
The session was well designed and structured.

Thank you so much for this session. I'm still trying to wrap my head around some of the concepts (like rewriting history) but I think this is really going to supercharge both me and my teams work when I bring it back to them.

Very clear explanation of the subject, and the presentation was easy to follow. I particularly liked the side by side comparison of foreach and for loops.

I would have appreciated some real-world examples to help my future self remembering when generators might be a better choice.

This was a great learning experience, thank you for your taking the time to walk us through some of the coolest features and flows of git. The hands on part was great and the class size made it easy to get help and work through the examples.

Really enjoyed the high energy talk and sharing the backstory of how Lane got here, and how valuable the community was for the speaker. I wish that piece could be brought out and expanded into its own talk. That alone was a 5 thumbs up.

I picked up some Laravel tricks. Maybe I did expect a "oh wow that is a good use-case!", as I'm choosing between different platforms. That was something I had hoped for.

Lane addresses it in your talk that this was still a unpolished presentation, so I look forward to future iterations!

Lots of really good points with a fresh take. I like that Chris pointed out a lot of concerns with AI, and I did leave with action steps. I also like the back and forth with the audience.

I appreciate the presenter's effort to cover the material, however, I felt that the presentation did not delve as deeply into the topic as I had hoped. I never used this tool before and was hoping to understand why this tool over another, or real use cases in the workplace.

The presenter powered through the slides and told everyone to hold questions until the very end.

We had a full hour, and she wrapped up at the 35 minute mark.

A bit of a rushed high level overview of the tool, more of a sales pitch to use it than an introduction to how to use it. A good chunk of the content never felt like it got tied back into PHPStan in any way. (And a few slides felt dated… for example the list of functions that included ones deprecated in php7 and removed in php8.0.

this talk was hilarious, prescient, and insightful for what AI can do and can't do.

Jfc, Jeremy sets the bar too high for everyone else. Great speaker, stylish slides that he's not just reading from, and goddamnit he sings really well! Plus the content of the talk was the perfect balance of overview/intro and some specifics to help us get going.