Elian Van Cutsem
Lead DevRel @ React Bricks | CTO @ Vulpo | Astro Maintainer
Brussels, Belgium
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Elian Van Cutsem or "ElianCodes" is a full-stack developer, creative technologist, and all-around internet troublemaker based in Belgium. He’s the CTO at Vulpo and works in Developer Relations at React Bricks, focusing on developer experience, documentation, and education. Previously, he was a Software Engineer and core maintainer at Astro.
Elian is also a co-organizer of several major JavaScript communities and events, including BeJS, React Paris, React Brussels, and React Africa.
Alongside his professional work, he creates provocative and experimental AI projects, designed to challenge our assumptions about ethics, automation, and human behavior. His work blends code and commentary, often in ways that are both hilarious and uncomfortably real.
Elian is known for his passion, puns, and offbeat sense of humor. His talks combine technical insight with a strong dose of creative chaos—guaranteed fun on stage.
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Playing with Fire: Unethical AI
AI is powerful, accessible, and incredibly easy to misuse. In this talk, I’ll walk through a series of intentionally provocative projects I’ve built, like an app that writes breakup texts using GPT or one that helps people generate fake excuses to skip meetings. These aren’t just jokes—they’re experiments meant to expose how AI can quietly enable unethical behavior.
Through these weird and sometimes uncomfortable tools, I’ll explore the ethical grey zones we often ignore: how small design choices shape user intent, how automation detaches us from responsibility, and how quickly things can spiral when no one’s watching.
This session isn’t about solutions, it’s about asking better questions. If you’re building with AI, you need to know just how easy it is to cross the line—sometimes without realizing it.
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