Christian Heilmann

Codemotion released the interview I gave about JavaScript and AI topics

Tuesday, February 26th, 2019 at 11:34 am

Over on the Codemotion magazine, they just released the video interviews shot at the Berlin edition last year.

I had quite a lot of questions, spanning from AI and ethics, what machine learning means for our market up to how to learn JavaScript. There are two parts to the interview:

In the first, I am answering these three questions:

  1. Microsoft has become this year’s top contributor to Github. What do you think about this?
  2. You said AI is as intelligent and good as we want it to be”. Are we moving towards a society in which tech is becoming more intelligent at the expense of the human brain?
  3. Could you share some tips to make humans less afraid of AI?

In the second interview we concentrated more on JavaScript:

  1. JavaScript is richer and messier year after year. Is it successful because it continues to change and evolve or is it becoming confusing and intimidating?
  2. Visual Studio Code has become the editor of choice of many web developers. In less than 3 years it is the . How can a good tool or toolchain improve your code and coding skill?
  3. AI and user interfaces: we are experiencing the launch of new products based on AI and new interface paradigms, f.e. voice or chat interfaces. How can developers use AI to improve the existing (visual) interfaces

Share on Mastodon (needs instance)

Share on BlueSky

Newsletter

Check out the Dev Digest Newsletter I write every week for WeAreDevelopers. Latest issues:

Word is Doomed, Flawed LLM benchmarks, hard sorting and CSS mistakes Spot LLM benchmark flaws, learn why sorting is hard, how to run Doom in Word and how to say "no" like a manager.
30 years of JS, Browser AI, how attackers use GenAI, whistling code Learn how to use AI in your browser and not on the cloud, why AI makes different mistakes than humans and go and whistle up some code!
197: Dunning-Kruger steroids, state of cloud security, puppies>beer
196: AI killed devops, what now? LLM Political bias & AI security Learn how AI killed DevOps, create long tasks in JS, why 1 in 5 security breaches are AI generated code & play "The Scope Creep"
195: End of likes, JS Zoo and Tim Berners-Lee doesn't see AI vs Web Meta kills like buttons, Tim-Berners-Lee thinks AI won't kill the web, GitHub is ending toasts and the worst selling Microsoft product.

My other work: