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title: "AI for the Other Parts of Your Technical Job"
description: "Stop fitting your workflow into off-the-rack tools. Learn to build your own AI-powered solutions, including a custom slide generator and a collaborative developer notebook."
url: https://www.callstack.com/events/ai-for-the-other-parts-of-your-technical-job
updated: 2026-10-24T08:39:18.815Z
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# AI for the Other Parts of Your Technical Job

Stop fitting your workflow into off-the-rack tools. Learn to build your own AI-powered solutions, including a custom slide generator and a collaborative developer notebook.

_Talk · 9/2/2025 · Wrocław, Poland · Recording: 25:52 · Category: AI_

Organizer: AI Meetup

Speakers: Rafael Mendiola (Co-Founder @ okthink.ai )

[Watch the recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWGeGtIhf7o)

Developers spend significant time on non-coding tasks using off-the-rack tools for presentations, documentation, and note-taking. Like off-the-rack clothing, these tools are designed to fit everyone reasonably well, but don't fit anyone perfectly. AI has fundamentally changed the economics of custom tooling, reducing build times from weeks to hours. We can now craft our own tools, perfectly tailored to our exact workflows.

Join [Rafael Mendiola](https://raf.dev/) as he walks through building two powerful, custom AI tools from scratch. He'll explore the creation of a presentation engine that generates complete slide decks in your unique speaking style, and a developer notebook that serves as a collaborative space with your personal AI agent for rapidly prototyping technical ideas.

What you'll discover:

- **Custom presentation engine:** Build a lightning-fast slide generator with Vite and React that crafts decks styled exactly how you want them in minutes, not hours.
- **AI-powered developer notebook:** Create a collaborative notebook with Astro to sketch out and flesh out technical ideas alongside AI agents like Claude or Cursor.
- **Codebase to documentation:** Leverage AI to research your own codebase, turning exploration sessions into permanent, searchable technical notes.
- **The new economics of tooling:** Understand why building bespoke AI-powered tools is now more accessible and powerful than ever.

Stop fitting your workflow into generic software. Learn how to build developer tools that are a perfect fit for you.