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Being a Maintainer in the Age of LLM Mania - Kevin Hannon, Red Hat
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
AI is all around us. In this talk, I will discuss ways maintainers can also leverage AI to combat AI slop, improve maintainer experience and avoid burnout. I will mention my experience on using AI to aide in development of Kubernetes features, maintaining testing environments and providing a good experience for users of AI assistants.

AI, for better or worse, is here to stay and maintainers should embrace the tools to aide development. In this talk, I will highlight using AI pull request review tools, creating AGENTS.md to streamline dev experience of using tools, leveraging the tools to do those cleanups you know are needed but nobody wants to do and mention ways your project can better support AI tooling.
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Kevin Hannon

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
Kevin Hannon is focused on improving AI/ML experience on Kubernetes. He started his career as a computational scientist and has always been interested in large scale batch jobs. He is motivated to improve Kubernetes in this area to benefit various use cases that are underserved by... Read More →
Maintainer in age of LLM pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200H (Level Two)
  Open Source 101
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
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