One of our current projects is a language course discovery platform. The client had already done serious groundwork: a trained ML model, a clean dataset, a chatbot that answered user questions accurately. By most measures, the technical foundation was solid. But the product wasn't behaving like a conversation. A user would type something — "I want to study in Ireland, I have a budget of around €5,000 to €10,000" — and the bot would respond correctly and then wait. No follow-up. No...

We spent two days at Dublin Tech Summit 2026. The conversations were different from what we expected — not in energy, but in honesty. Less "AI will change everything," more "we added AI — now what?" That shift was the most interesting thing about the event. The mood in the room We came with a specific focus: find founders and technical leaders asking the harder questions. Not which AI model to use, but where AI creates real value — and where it just moves complexity somewhere less visible....

Build tooling doesn't feel like a strategic decision until it starts costing you. Slow CI pipelines, HMR that lags by seconds, onboarding friction for new engineers, a Webpack config that nobody wants to touch — these things accumulate quietly until they're visibly slowing down the team. The conversation about migrating from Webpack to Vite is rarely about the tools themselves. It's usually about developer velocity, release cadence, and whether the frontend setup is a net accelerator or a net...