Keynote: Django the Dinosaur: A Story About A Web Framework
summary
Django originates in 2003 in Lawrence as a newsroom tool and grows into a foundation for sites like Pinterest and Instagram; the codebase migrates from SVN to Git, community sites get a 2014 redesign and channels added in 2016 extend Django beyond HTTP. The keynote claims AI/LLMs are changing how developers work, demos a ChatGPT-generated blog plus photo album and argues AI can surface package-management problems while industry moves (Zapier reports ~10% cuts tied to AI) force rethinking who writes code.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:47Speaker’s journey with Django
- 2:57Birth of Django in 2003
- 4:43Django’s growth
- 6:06Adapting or dying in 2012
- 6:49Branding and community evolution
- 9:21Django Channels
- 10:23AI impact on programming
- 11:49Change through personas
- 13:37Community of innovators
- 18:17AI’s role in Django community
- 19:42Future of Django
- 20:30Q&A
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