AI Innovations & JavaScript Performance Hacks

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We are excited to invite you to Hodash Dev's next meetup and our first visit to Natanya

⏰ 18:00 - Gathering at PasspordCard for some mingling and 🍕
📢 18:30 - Gilad Shoham & Laly Bar-Ilan - Beyond Snippets: From AI Generation to AI Composition
📢 19:00 - Nir Kaufman - What happened to Henry? or: AI Agents for JavaScript developers
📢 19:30 - Yonatan Kra - JavaScript Performance Optimization

Beyond Snippets: From AI Generation to AI Composition
AI code generators excel in benchmarks but often fall short in the real world. Why haven’t they revolutionized development? Because they generate code snippets that lack context, duplicate functionality, require manual integration, and can introduce errors.

This talk presents a new approach to code generation that reuses existing code, follows company standards, tests for impact, and generates fully executable components ready for integration.

What happened to Henry? or: AI Agents for JavaScript developers
Remember old-school travel agents? Meet Henry—he books flights, finds hotels, and argues with customer service on your behalf. But what if Henry were an AI agent? In this talk, we'll demystify AI agents for JavaScript developers by breaking down what they really do (hint: it’s just a bunch of API calls). Through Henry’s story, we’ll connect the dots between human problem-solving and AI-driven automation, then dive into a hands-on JavaScript implementation to build our own "Henry"—minus the coffee breaks. Expect a mix of code, dark humor, and a few surprises along the way.

JavaScript Performance Optimization

What do the event loop, rendering, and memory allocation in JavaScript have in common? Job Security!

In this talk, we will trace the path applications take - from JavaScript code and CSS styles to the final pixels rendered on the user's screen. Along the way, we will dive into real-world examples of solving performance issues in production, uncovering insights you can immediately apply to your projects.

Whether you want to optimize critical workflows or address subtle slowdowns, this session will provide practical insights to enhance your application's runtime performance.