[un]prompted meant different things to different people, from CISOs to vulnerability researchers to academics, to directors of agencies. 700 people in SF, 850 online. But it also meant one thing for all: community.
It’s the only moat, differentiator, people have in the AI age, and why we risked moving venues from a 200 seats one two weeks before the con itself.

In 2025 it was said “AI won’t replace you, a human using AI will.” I don’t know if that is true anymore, even though micro singularities seem to hit different fields unevenly (offense is here, defense isn’t).
But, we all shared a mutual frustrations about limited context windows.

Steve Crocker once shared with me a sentence they wrote in the first arpanet design meeting:
“Networks are for people.”
People are what fuels any technology. It’s there for us. At least for now.

So, how do we go about being a part of this future, and securing it?

1. Take AI back from the marketers. [un]prompted was about no b/s sharing of real work - no matter what it is. Speakers skipped introductions and explanations and shared what they do. It set a bar for content shared and respected in the industry.

2. Form a community. This is a new field, with practitioners coming in from any and every direction. Together, people can do bigger things, and in this case help secure the future.

3. It’s about relevance. Many feel outmoded, and those of us deep in the field don’t always know how we’d ever keep up. But all that’s needed is to try.

Are you using a coding agent right now, is your CEO? Your CISO? Trying it for what it’s not good at? Dumping your scaffolding every 90 days to start over as it’s no longer the same world?
It doesn’t matter if you’re a researcher or in finance. You are relevant and all you need is English, … but you need to start now.

Try to pick others up along the path, and if even 2% come along for the ride, it changes everything.

[un]prompted wouldn’t have happened without sponsors who asked for absolutely nothing: Knostic TachTech AISLE™ Whiterabbit Halcyon Futures Halcyon Ventures. Community sponsorship is a thing. Take a moment to check what they do, and buy them a beer when you meet them.

Thank YOU for coming, and I must admit I have true FOMO over not attending the online con. It almost feels like the Zoom attendees had more interaction and content than people there physically.

I don’t know if this will happen again next year, if such a con would even be relevant by then, but I recognize that by hard work and a lot of luck, we were there in a unique warp point in time, where the industry came together to get stuff done, and form a community.

The videos are available to attendees, and will be shared publicly as soon as possible. Transcripts and slides are already out on Slack.

Thank YOU for making this happen, and believing in a first time con.

And thank you to our volunteers, from someone’s SO to a professor to a billionaire, who spent the con working. You deserve your own post.

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This column meant more to me than anything I've written for a while. Here's an excerpt. Please take a moment to read the whole thing."

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.©

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/baltimore-bridge-collapse-immigrant-deaths-20240328.html#loaded

Looking forward to hearing @HalvarFlake’s thoughts on AI after 7 years!

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