I've done it myself. I once presented an 80% done BitTorrent implementation in Elixir.

It is on my GitHub. I haven't touched it for years. It is called Hazel and doesn't run on modern Elixir. I look forward to the presentation!

New genre of conference talk: Finishing the projects others did as conference-driven development.

Have you ever been to a talk at a conference where the presenter shows progress on a side project that is not completely done? It is clear that he wanted it to be done for the conference and used the conference as a deadline. But at some point, he ran out of time and had to deliver the promised talk. Then, after the talk, the project went on hiatus.

Find such a project. Complete it and present it.

A Danish AI influencer just claimed on LinkedIn that he has built AI products with millions of users. He is not a programmer; he is more of a “business guy.” Denmark has slightly more than 5 million people. Of course, he could have created an international project with millions of users.

But I call AI-bullshit on this one.

The number one rule of AI-influencing is lying out of your damn nose. Lie about your own competence, and lie about your robot friend’s capabilities. Then reap the profits.