Episode 288: Make AI Useful For You
Grace Taylor talks with John about ways to make AI more useful for developers, using tools like Better Together to build better apps, how it knows what developer's intent is, what services is Better Together using, and more.
Host(s):
- John Papa @John_Papa
Guest:
- Grace Taylor [@GraceGTaylor]](https://twitter.com/gracegtaylor_)
Recording date: July 1, 2024
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Resources:
- Building Better Apps Better Together with AI
- YouTube Video by Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza on Building Better Together Apps
- Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Code Optimizations in AI
- Productive and secure end to end developer experience powered by AI
Timejumps
- 00:42 What is Canada Day, eh?
- 01:22 Introducing Grace Taylor
- 02:53 What is Better Together?
- 05:53 How does it work to figure out what's best for my app?
- 08:21 Sponsor: Ag Grid
- 09:26 How do you know what the developer's intent is?
- 12:13 What interesting ways are users using AI?
- 15:07 What services are you using to build Better Together?
- 16:43 Is it the platform's job to make UX better, or should the industry teach prompt writing?
- 18:03 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
- 18:58 How can AI do better at supporting languages other than English?
- 23:48 How do code optimizations work?
- 29:40 What kind of feedback have you gotten?
- 31:38 Where can people learn more about Better Together?
- 32:58 Final thoughts
Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.