SLOAI x Viaduct: The Hard Part of AI

Demos are easy — trust, validation, and maintenance are hard. Three talks on AI's real bottleneck. Small meetup, 40 seats only. THE HARD PART OF AI SLOAI season kickoff · September 24, 2026 · 17:00 · Viaduct offices, Generating code is easy. Building a demo is easy. Getting shallow knowledge on any topic is easier than ever. This meetup is about everything that comes after — understanding, validating, maintaining, and earning trust in what AI helps us create. We're opening the new SLOAI season with a deliberately small, focused evening at the Viaduct offices. Capacity is capped at 40 attendees first come, first served. TALKS Cognitive biases in the AI era — Tadej Borovšak Our brains have limited compute capacity, and cognitive biases shape every knowledge worker's decisions. Tadej examines whether AI — by making shallow factual knowledge trivially accessible — is making this problem better or worse. The Cost of Coding Faster — Nejc Potrebuješ AI has made writing code faster than ever. But when producing code becomes cheap, the engineering bottleneck shifts to comprehension, quality, security, and maintenance. Did autopilot replace pilots — or just change their role? And what does that mean for developers? Reflections on AI implementations at Viaduct: past, present, future — Matej Drev AI demos are easy; deployed solutions that users trust, use, and pay for are much harder. A candid look at Viaduct's journey turning connected-asset data into operational decisions — selecting the right problems, building with imperfect data, integrating AI into real workflows, and where generative and agentic AI take things next. Hosted by Viaduct. Organised by SLOAI — Zavod za spodbujanje razvoja umetne inteligence, connecting startups, companies, researchers, engineers, investors, and policymakers across Slovenia's AI ecosystem. Connecting Knowledge, Shaping the Future