# Hot Takes on AI

Hype isn't a dirty word if you do the groundwork

## Test the Hell Out of AI Before You Trust It

### AI Agents for DBOps Automation

### Your Best Developer Tool Isn't AI

### Don’t Get Rug Pulled by Open Source

### DevRel Beyond Borders

We talked to DevRel folks at DevRelCon who are building with AI every day—what they’ve learned and where they think things are headed. From agents and evals to database infra and open source, it’s all in here. Here are their hot takes on AI:

[**Hype isn't a dirty word if you do the groundwork: Lessons from Thor at ElevenLabs**](/content/blog/spicy-takes-on-ai-thor-eleven-labs/index.html)

When it comes to getting developers on board with your tool or platform, hype is good, if it's justified and balanced with solid DevRel groundwork that converts into long-term usage.

For Thor Schaeff, Head of Developer Experience (DevEx) at ElevenLabs (previously Supabase and Stripe), hype is fine—if you can deliver.

And that’s where DevRel comes in.

> “One of the best parts of DevRel is that you get to deepen your own understanding by turning what you learn into content that helps others build. It’s a great space for people who are naturally curious. And when you hit that ‘aha!’ moment yourself, you just want to share it so others can get there too.” - Thor Schaeff, Head of Developer Experience (DevEx) at ElevenLabs

### Find out what is Thor’s spicy take on AI.

[Read more](/content/blog/spicy-takes-on-ai-thor-eleven-labs/index.html)

[**Test the Hell Out of AI Before You Trust It, Says Galileo DevRel Head Jim**](/content/blog/hot-takes-on-ai-jim-galileo/index.html)

When AI gets things wrong (and it certainly does!), the impact on customers and companies can be devastating. Jim Bennett, Head of DevRel at Galileo, spends no time sugarcoating the current state of AI and explains how Galileo is honing its tools that monitor AI solutions and fix problems before shipping and in production.

> “AI is actually quite rubbish, and it gets a lot of things wrong. Imagine if there was a way you could prove that it was getting things wrong and use that information to stop it from getting things wrong. That’s what AI needs right now.”

### Jim’s hot take on AI - Dive in

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[**How GibsonAI Uses AI Agents to Automate the Worst Parts of DBOps**](/content/blog/hot-takes-on-ai-from-harish-gibsonai/index.html)

Harish Mukkami, CEO of GibsonAI, believes that providing devs with the ability to set up and manage databases in seconds keeps apps scalable and devs free from the headaches that come with managing back-end chaos. His AI-powered database management solution is up for the task.

> “How do you build AI to work with databases that have a bit more guardrails and rules and expect more deterministic execution? This is what inspired us to bring AI to the database realm.”

### GibsonAI takes the grunt work out of DBOps

[Read more](/content/blog/hot-takes-on-ai-from-harish-gibsonai/index.html)

[**Your Best Developer Tool Isn't AI, It's Community**](/content/blog/hot-takes-on-ai-from-jon-mlh/index.html)

Jon Gottfried, the co-founder of Major League Hacking (MLH), used to picture developers the way movies do: brilliant but miserable, stuck in cubicles, coding in isolation. That image shattered one weekend at a hackathon. It wasn’t the tech that changed everything, it was the people.

> “There's this magic moment at a hackathon... you can get up in a room of a thousand strangers and raise your hand to be like does anyone know Arduino? And... ten people will rush over to help you solve that problem.”

### Get Jon’s take on why AI won’t replace community.

[Read more](/content/blog/hot-takes-on-ai-from-jon-mlh/index.html)

[**Don’t Get Rug Pulled by Open Source; Nail It to the Floor with Governance**](/content/blog/hot-takes-on-ai-from-roberto-aws/index.html)

Open source gives every developer access to technologies that would otherwise require whole teams to maintain. But the whole ecosystem rests on an unspoken promise that the tools we build our careers on will still be there tomorrow.

Unfortunately, we’ve seen what happens when that trust is broken. So, how can communities protect their open-source projects? Neutral governance is the answer, according to Roberto Luna Rojas, Senior Developer Advocate at AWS for the Valkey project.

### Roberto’s take on where AI and open source collide

[Read more](/content/blog/hot-takes-on-ai-from-roberto-aws/index.html)

[**Showcasing Latin America’s Tech Talent and Taking DevRel Beyond Borders**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aZ__tofCDU)

Jolo is the co-founder of Nerdearla, Argentina’s largest tech conference. He’s tapping into the global DevRel community, starting with Latin America (LatAm). Jolo has joined us to discuss how he’s built a space where devs can connect over shared cultures and challenges, as well as how to discover the joys of finding a community that shares your own language when (and where) you least expect it.

> “You keep being you and try to involve people who have another type of mindset and come with another set of technology.”

### See how Nerdearla became a community that crosses borders

[Read more](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aZ__tofCDU)