r/Clojure • u/alexdmiller • 4d ago

How to Make Things, and Why - Stuart Halloway (Clojure/Conj 2026)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yeH1DqK984
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u/alexdmiller 4d ago

Stu posted the slides here and moderators removed - why?

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u/richhickey 4d ago

Reddit bot did that. I've approved

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u/stuarthalloway 4d ago

Slides are at https://github.com/stuarthalloway/presentations/blob/master/2026_Conj_Making_A_Living.pdf.

Lots of links to followup reading.

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u/th0ma5w 4d ago

Thank you this was really great !!!!

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u/Frank_White32 2d ago

I just landed a junior backend engineer role in a Clojure backend (coming from Rails). I feel very fortunate to be joining this community.

Reading Rich’s post “AI is not a tool” made me incredibly emotional. Watching your talk gave me a similar feeling.

It gives me some hope. Like I’ve found myself in the right place when I needed it the most.

I look forward to learning from the craftspeople in this community.

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u/throwaway1389011011 3d ago

I really enjoy the calls to unionize, especially from a labor rights/don't make us pee in bottles perspective.

I think more engineers need to unionize for just like basic fairness in IP treatment and work hours

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u/fancyl 4d ago

It's rude to show AI output to people

Is a norm I will help normalize.

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u/Remixer96 4d ago

Great talk as always Stu.

I wonder if there's a graphical format we could use for the AI disclosure that's a bit more info dense and easier to glance at.

I know for example I tend to write my decks in markdown and LLM them to reveal, so how different should that look at a glance....