Make Every Developer an AI Developer | Build Fest San Francisco 2026

Subscribe to the MongoDB for Developers YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MongoDBDevelopers?sub_confirmation=1 Sign-up for a free cluster → https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register Subscribe to MongoDB YouTube→ https://mdb.link/subscribe Every team wants to ship production AI — without needing a specialized ML team to do it. Today that's still hard: it takes deep knowledge of embeddings, vector math, and pipeline management most developers simply don't have. We've solved this kind of problem before. Twenty years ago, jQuery turned browser chaos into one-line simplicity, and any developer could suddenly build what used to take a specialist days. AI is at that same inflection point. Learn how modern platforms are flattening the AI learning curve — so any team can build production AI easier, better, and faster, with no ML expertise required. 00:00 - Introduction & Welcome 01:03 - What is the "jQuery Moment" for AI? 03:41 - Web Development Evolution vs. Modern AI Development 10:24 - Why MongoDB Vector Search is Critical for AI Agents 16:01 - How Vector Search Works: Semantic vs. Lexical Search 18:51 - Challenge 1: Optimizing Chunk Size with Contextualized Chunking 23:16 - Challenge 2: Dimensions & Matryoshka Representation Learning 25:54 - Challenge 3: Token Cost Management & Shared Embedding Spaces 29:00 - Challenge 4: API Key Management in MongoDB Atlas 30:44 - Challenge 5: Automating Maintenance with MongoDB Auto-Embeddings 32:45 - Key Takeaways & Summary 34:50 - Audience Q&A: MongoDB Vector Search Advantages & Benchmarks Visit Mongodb.com → https://mdb.link/MongoDB Read the MongoDB Blog → https://mdb.link/Blog Read the Developer Blog → https://mdb.link/developerblog MongoDB for Developers YouTube Channel → https://www.youtube.com/@MongoDBDevelopers