Custom can be stronger than law; current custom dictates that you absolutely cannot give a talk at a tech conference in 2024 without featuring AI prominently. Fortunately, there's no established custom yet around sentiment analysis, so this one squeaked by the automated checks. In this entertaining talk, you'll learn what else might be squeaking past automated checks—and how to reason about a burgeoning technology's place in the last area of technology in which we can afford to guess and hope for the best.