Web Directions Summit 2024 Day 1 and Web AI

It was Day 1 of Web Directions Summit 2024 today and the talk that got me most excited about the future of front end is probably Jason Mayes' "Web apps of the future with Web AI". It's refreshing to see a talk about ML/AI that (mostly) isn't about LLMs, but also about doing things in the browser + standards.

I dabbled with Tensorflow.js a fair bit six years ago, but I hadn't kept up with it after I decided to focus on finding a job in software engineering. Things appear to have changed a lot and many types of inferencing is now super viable in the browser.

It's time to play again!