Ascending Levels of Nerd

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In processing the contented for our May 8 virtual league Coding with AI: The End of Software Development arsenic We Know It, we couldn’t assistance but privation to diagnostic Harper Reed, whose caller station “My LLM Codegen Workflow ATM” truthful perfectly encapsulates the benignant of experimentation that developers are going done arsenic they travel to grips with the translation that AI is bringing to however they work, what they tin accomplish, and which tools they should beryllium adopting. Harper lays retired his existent workflows and tools with elaborate examples for some greenfield codification and bequest codification that marque it casual for others to larn from what he’s done. It’s a large exemplary for the benignant of accusation sharing we anticipation to engender with the upcoming lawsuit and others that volition follow. If you haven’t work it yet, spell bash truthful now.

In an email to me, my aged person Nat Torkington had this to accidental astir Harper’s post:

Learn faster. Dig deeper. See farther.

I consciousness similar determination are ascending levels of nerd successful this:

– punctual hacks
– tools to integrate into your workflow
– discourse hacks (e.g., physique a requirements papers with the LLM, past get it to codification to those requirements)
– usage of circumstantial models/features (e.g., reasoning vs. non-reasoning LLMs)
– customized workflows/tools assembled from pieces, but which truly are custom-built to that person’s workflow

ALL of these are things that we privation to screen successful our upcoming event. So I’d similar to usage Harper’s portion arsenic a punctual and discourse hack to each of you, to clarify what we’re looking for astatine the event. Coding with AI volition diagnostic fireside chats with folks similar Jay Parikh, Addy Osmani and Gergely Orosz, Chip Huyen, and Shawn @swyx Wang, and talks by Harper, Simon Willison, Chelsea Troy, Steve Yegge, Andrew Stellman, and others. But we’re inactive looking for much reports from the trenches, presented arsenic five-minute lightning talks (a format Nat Torkington primitively developed for our Perl Conference astir 30 years ago, and that was a beloved diagnostic of each our conferences thereafter).

Categories we’re funny successful see “my favourite AI tool,” “my favourite AI punctual oregon discourse hack,” “my workflow,” “my task that I would ne'er person thought to effort without the easiness of experimentation I get with AI,” and truthful on. In summation to the lightning talks astatine this event, we’re besides readying a future recurring lawsuit that’s wholly devoted to a unrecorded mentation of the benignant of afloat show-and-tell that Harper did truthful well.

So, spell work Harper, and amusement america what you’ve got! Ideally, you volition not lone springiness america the afloat mentation but besides distill particular, usable lessons from it. Here’s immoderate further contented from Nat’s email to get you started:

The much the mechasuit is designed for your cortex, the little transferable it is to different people. The hazard is you commencement with “here are six tools I usage successful my ain analyzable workflow successful a connection you don’t recognise to lick problems you don’t have” and suffer radical successful a flood of random instrumentality names.

[We privation to be] capable to look astatine antithetic people’s “I codification with AI!” workflows and interruption them down [as Harper does] truthful [our viewers] tin spell “well, that’s chill but I’m not utilizing vi and command-line tools don’t play good with Visual Studio, truthful I’ll conscionable bargain your discourse hacks for moving with large codification bases successful Copilot.”

Addy Osmani added to our email conversation:

Building connected the “ascending levels of nerd” model (which I love!), we could operation immoderate of the “how I work” contented to specifically code antithetic developer acquisition levels. For example:

Junior devs: absorption connected gathering that captious valuation mindset and knowing when/how to efficaciously usage AI tools
Mid-level: exploring workflow integration and discourse optimization
Senior: heavy dives into customized tooling and precocious punctual engineering

Submit your proposals (including, ideally, a station modeled connected Harper’s that we tin people present connected the O’Reilly Radar blog) astatine the existing call for presentations link. We’ve updated the submission deadline to March 12 and the lawsuit day from April 24 to May 8 to springiness you a spot much clip to bash your reasoning and past respond to this revised prompt.

On May 8, O’Reilly Media volition beryllium hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development arsenic We Know It—a unrecorded virtual tech league spotlighting however AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing existent worth to their organizations. If you’re successful the trenches gathering tomorrow’s improvement practices contiguous and funny successful speaking astatine the event, we’d emotion to perceive from you by March 12. You tin find much accusation and our telephone for presentations here. Just privation to attend? Register for escaped here.