Alexander Vassbotn Røyne-Helgesen PRO
Lover of life, technologist at heart
The Joy of Building: How I stopped wasting time and made by own tools
§ 0{{slide}}
≈ 45 minutes · {{slideCount}} slides
Some event
Somewhere
Alexander Vassbotn Røyne-Helgesen
02 / 36
Driving growth through technology and leadership. Technology Leader, Speaker, Event Manager, Design Engineer, AI Prompt Engineer and Frontend expert with over 20 years of experience
Alexander Vassbotn Røyne-Helgesen
AVR
Alexander Vassbotn Røyne-Helgesen
Driving growth through Technology and Leadership
§ 03
03 / 36
The Joy of Building: How I stopped wasting time and made by own tools
AI scales assumptions faster than humans can notice them
04 / 36
§ 04
The more automated the decision, the more dangerous invisible data becomes.
- Sensors and logs feel objective — but collection is selective.
- Dashboards compress reality into a few numbers and colors.
- ML pipelines inherit every upstream omission and unit mismatch.
- Automation turns local errors into organizational policy.
Trusted Data is not "perfect data"
05 / 36
- Carefully selected sources: Where did it come from? Why trust the producer, device, process, or witness?
- Intentional transformation: Was it cleaned, joined, labeled, or summarized for the purpose at hand?
- Consumer fit: Is it delivered in the right format, freshness, and context for the audience?
It is data we can rely on because we understand its source, transformation, and use.
06 / 36
Trusted data comes from selected sources, is transformed for intended use, and delivered appropriately.
Adapted from: Russom, Philip - The Ramifications of Trusted Data
Design systems that demand trust, not blind belief.
Alexander Røyne-Helgesen · Talk · May 2026
- Scrutinize sources.
- Make interpretation explicit.
- Preserve semantics and lineage.
- Expose uncertainty.
- Keep humans capable of dissent.
§ {{slide}}
The Joy of Building: How I stopped wasting time and made by own tools
The Joy of Building: How I Stopped Wasting Time and Made My Own Tools
By Alexander Vassbotn Røyne-Helgesen
The Joy of Building: How I Stopped Wasting Time and Made My Own Tools
This is a talk about frustration. About wasting hours in broken workflows and clunky tools. But more than that, it's a story about reclaiming time by building better things. From tailor-fit build systems to color generators and cosmic visualizations, I've spent my career crafting tools not just to solve problems, but to remove them entirely. This talk explores the philosophy, joy, and productivity behind custom tooling and the quiet power of solving your own pain points instead of tolerating them.
