Reflections of AI: A Trilogy in 4 Parts • Rasmus Lystrøm • GOTO 2025

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Rasmus Lystrøm - Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft @ondfisk666 RESOURCES https://bsky.app/profile/ondfisk.bsky.social https://x.com/ondfisk https://www.linkedin.com/in/rasmuslystroem https://github.com/ondfisk https://ondfisk.dk Links https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.06590v1 https://www.blueoptima.com/resource/the-impact-of-generative-ai-on-software-developer-performance https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/BFI_WP_2025-56-1.pdf https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity https://www.scribd.com/document/834297356/AI-Copilot-Code-Quality-2025 https://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2024/03/13/klarnas-new-ai-tool-does-the-work-of-700-customer-service-reps https://fortune.com/2025/05/09/klarna-ai-humans-return-on-investment https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713778 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5 https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/20/energy/three-mile-island-microsoft-ai https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-15/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-on-his-ai-efforts-and-openai-partnership https://www.ft.com/content/c9f905a0-cbfc-4a0a-ac4f-0d68d0fc64aa?stream=top&syn-25a6b1a6=1 https://gettract.com/blog/its-time-to-get-rid-of-the-it-department-the-wall-street-journal ABSTRACT Reflecting on the era of AI, I present my views as "A Trilogy in Four Parts": • The impact of generative AI adoption • The [hidden] price of AI adoption • Useful AI in a world saturated with LLMs • How to build [valuable AI] solutions We start with a nod to Douglas Adams and discussion on the latest research showing the dark side of AI but ends on a silver lining on possible uses of AI. I promise a mix of rants, wakeup calls, and laughs. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:13 Agenda 02:20 1. The impact of GenAl adoption 09:11 2. The [hidden] price of Al adoption 18:28 3. Useful Al in a world saturated with LLMs 23:33 4. How to build [valuable Al] solutions 27:45 Takeaways 31:03 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3743 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Michael Feathers • AI Assisted Programming • https://leanpub.com/ai-assisted-programming James Phoenix & Mike Taylor • Prompt Engineering for Generative AI • https://amzn.to/43cFDqO Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ Lakshmanan, Görner & Gillard • Practical Machine Learning for Computer Vision • https://amzn.to/3m9HNjP Leo Porter & Daniel Zingaro • Learn AI-assisted Python Programming • https://amzn.to/3Pv3Hx7 https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #AITransformation #GenAI #MicrosoftCoPilot #AI #NeuralNetworks #RAG #RetrievalAugmentedGeneration #RasmusLystroem #GOTO #TodayInTech CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1