Christian Heilmann

A billion new developers thanks to AI?

September 12th, 2024

This is a translation of my German article for the AI mag. At the WeAreDeveloper World Congress in Berlin in July, GitHub announced that the company will use artificial intelligence and assistants to turn a billion people into developers in a very short time. Amazon’s Cloud CEO, on the other hand, explained in an internal […]

Quick tip: using flatMap() to extract data from a huge set without any loop

September 6th, 2024

I just created a massive dataset of all the AI generated metadata of the videos of the WeAreDeveloper World Congress and I wanted to extract only the tags. The dataset is a huge array with each item containing a description, generated title, an array of tags, the original and their title, like this: { "description": […]

Eine Milliarde neuer Entwickler dank KI? Linkliste

September 2nd, 2024

Hier sind die Resourcen meines Artikels im AI Magazin zum selbst nachlesen: The road to one Billion developers keynote by Thomas Dohmke and Demetris Cheatham of GitHub at WeAreDevelopers World Congress Amazon Cloud CEO Predicts a Future Where Most Software Engineers Don’t Code — and AI Does It Instead In a leaked recording, Amazon cloud […]

Talk notes: Let’s make a simpler, more accessible web

August 5th, 2024

I am just on my way back home from presenting at the Typo3 Developer Days in Karlsruhe, Germany. I had a great time and met a lot of interesting people. I also had the opportunity to present my talk on making the web simpler. The talk was well received and there were some requests to […]

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200: Building for the web, what's left after rm -rf & 🌊🐴 vs AI What remains after you do a rm -rf? Why do LLMs know about a seahorse emoji? What image formats should you use? How private is your car?
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

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