Modern Web Development: Centering DIVs in new exciting wrong ways with AI!
Friday, March 31st, 2023 at 12:48 amEarlier today I spoke at the Microsoft Reactor meetup in Berlin about frontend development, LLMs, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot and what it means to our work and careers. In this 32 minute talk and 5 minutes of Q&A, I covered a lot of ground:
- Introduction
- Web Development isn’t complex technology
- GPT can create web products from a doodle, or can it?
- WYSIWYG was never a thing for the web
- Building web designs from prompts
- What Web Development is not
- Things a web design needs to cater for
- What Web Development means
- ChatGPT and conversational UI
- AI will take our jobs – and that’s OK
- Focusing on productivity
- From Smart Autocomplete to AI Peer Programmers (GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer and GhostWriter AI Mode)
- Valid criticisms of machine aided code completion
- The full StackOverflow Developer
- More than Automated Copy + Paste
- Context Recognition
- Code Explanation
- Code Translation
- Benefits of a “learning” code environment
- Evidence of effectiveness of AI code completion
- Code Brushes as a different interaction model
- GitHub Copilot X
- Chat inside the code editor
- Chat interface for docs
- Pull request generation
- Copilot for CLI
- Code by voice recognition
- Voice access helps people and shouldn’t be a hustle aid
- Augmenting code practices instead of replacing them
- Focus shift from writing to reviewing code
- New skill: Asking the right questions
- Prompt Engineering (Course on LinkedIn Learning)
- This is a great time to be a developer
- Q&A
It was great to present and I am looking forward to expand on some of these topics as they become more available.