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How should you manage AI contributions to an open-source project? How do you measure the impact of using AI tools for development, and what generative features do end users want from a content management system? This week on the show, we speak with Thibaud Colas and Meagen Voss from Wagtail about the complex considerations software organizations are currently facing.
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Meagen is the Wagtail community manager, and Thibaud is a member of the core team. We discuss the impact of AI on a popular open-source project. We reference multiple articles they've written about managing these challenges.
We dig into wrangling AI-assisted contributions to the project. They share how they research options for open-weight AI models and inference providers. We also discuss building AI features into the Wagtail CMS. Finally, we touch on the recent release of Wagtail 8.0.
Topics:
- 00:00:00 -- Introduction
- 00:01:49 -- What is Wagtail?
- 00:08:35 -- Flood of AI submissions to open-source projects
- 00:11:38 -- Guidance for AI-led contributions
- 00:20:43 -- Security submissions
- 00:21:56 -- Ethical decisions about internal use of AI
- 00:26:31 -- Resurgence of web sites
- 00:27:41 -- Measuring benefits and performance
- 00:32:49 -- Models understanding your framework
- 00:38:05 -- Video Course Spotlight
- 00:39:42 -- Adding AI features to Wagtail for creators
- 00:48:47 -- Balancing the use of AI internally and the cost of inference
- 00:55:29 -- Advice for other open
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2026/09/25
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