Host Intro (Gene Kim)

Good morning. Welcome to day two of the conference. Did everyone have an interesting day one yesterday? And by a round of applause, did everyone have fun and find interesting people to talk to at the industry party last night? Awesome, because I certainly did.

All right, for this morning, to kick things off, I just want to share three things.

One is, the amazing team from SBS Commerce, Andy Domeier and Scott Brons, mentioned FFO, and I realized I forgot to define that yesterday morning. So FFO is something that we put into the vibe coding book to describe the five dimensions of value that we think vibe creates. It's building things faster, being able to be more ambitious about the things you can build, to be able to do things more autonomously and alone, which is actually very useful because it reduces two very expensive taxes. One is a coordination cost to interact with other teams. And then two is, whenever you work with someone else, there's this "I can't read your mind" tax. And so being able to have an LLM intermediate those interactions lowers both of those.

And then, as a second F, is fun. It is just so much fun. It's addictive to be able to solve these problems and get the thrill of creating things.

And then O, it creates option value, or optionality. You get more swings at bat. You can explore such a greater number, a larger option space. And so Steve Yegge said, "Yeah, let's just call it FFO," which stuck. So that's defining what FFO is.

The second thing I wanted to mention was, we did the vibe coding leadership workshop for leaders on the day before the conference. How many people attended that? This was amazing. And so Steve and I were just so delighted at how it came out. I think it's fair to say that almost everyone generated something. We basically gave data for people to visualize, we created a dev box, and here's some of the sampling of some of the amazing things that people demoed.

But what's really cool is that there's several of you who couldn't stop coding. Here's Josh Phillips saying he decided that he wanted a better conference attendance and prioritization tracker, and then published it. And like me, I'm finding that so often I'm building tools that I want, where I'm running prompts like, "I'm so tired of Apple Preview to preview people's slides. Write me a JavaScript scoring app to create a perfect slide-sorter view." And I had it running within five minutes. All right, so it's just amazing.

And then third, I wanted to mention one thing that happened to me last night. Actually, it happened a bunch of times. A bunch of you came up to me and said something along the lines of, "Oh my gosh, I finally found my tribe," or, "This really does feel like a big reunion." That was just so amazing to hear. In fact, it's something that I've heard so often going all the way back to 2014. I think it just does indicate that there's some universalities that every one of these speakers and all of you face, regardless of what industry you're in, how large your organization is, how old your organization is.

And so I hope that you all find that this event is where you, like me, find fellow travelers, people with similar challenges, values, who are on a similar journey. And if you're like me, I often find really super interesting people to go on interesting adventures with.

So with that, I'll turn it over to Jeff before we introduce the programming.

Jeff Gallimore

Yeah, thanks, Gene. All right, there are a few more people in the room now, so maybe we can get a louder response: who had a good time at the industry party last night?

Yeah, it is so wonderful to be able to catch up with old friends and also make some new ones along the way. It was terrific. I'm also happy to report: no donuts, all croissants. It was fantastic. Well done, everyone.

All right. Don't have a lot of time for information and updates this morning during open, because we've borrowed all that time back so that we can give you some more mind-blowing insights from more amazing summit speakers. We've posted all the updates and the information in the Summit Info channel in Slack. So get your eyes on that. You'll know all the things that you need to know.

If you're not in Slack already, please do that. It's such an important part of the summit experience. This is the information to get you onboard into the Slack workspace for this event. If you need any help, find me or find one of the IT Revolution staff and we can help you out.

And with that, get ready for an awesome day two. Gene, back to you to introduce today's first talk.

Host Intro (Gene Kim)

Thank you, Jeff.