Christian Heilmann

GitHub Copilot for Docs – putting the “fun” into RTFM

April 5th, 2023

Here’s a quick video of me showing you the benefits of GitHub Copilot for docs: AI powered chat interfaces are a great and fun way to learn about new technologies. The problem is quality and relevance. Chat GPT for example doesn’t tell you the source of the information. Bing chat does at times pull from […]

Review: Video Tap – automatically convert YouTube videos to blog posts

April 3rd, 2023

Yesterday I wrote a blog post about a question I got at a conference and I thought I try one of those fancy “AI” tools that grace my inbox every few hours. Video Tap promises to turn videos into blog posts. You give it a YouTube URL, and it writes a post for you, looking […]

The Future of Senior Developers in an AI-Driven World

April 2nd, 2023

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, many are concerned about its impact on the job market, particularly for junior developers. If AI can automate many of the tasks these developers currently perform, how will we have new senior developers and architects in the future? Let’s talk about how junior developers still have crucial roles […]

Modern Web Development: Centering DIVs in new exciting wrong ways with AI!

March 31st, 2023

Earlier 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 […]

GitHub Copilot for the Command Line is amazing!

March 29th, 2023

I just got access to GitHub Copilot CLI and a few seconds after installing it, I am happy as a clam about it. You can see it in action in this video or let me talk you through it here. GitHub Copilot CLI brings AI code completion to your terminal. After installing it, you get […]

Newsletter

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

160: Graphs and RAGs explained and VS Code extension hacks Graphs and RAG explained, how AI is reshaping UI and work, how to efficiently use Cursor, VS Code extensions security issues.
159: AI pipelines, 10x faster TypeScript, How to interview How to use LLMs to help you write code and how much electricity does that use? Is your API secure? 10x faster TypeScript thanks to Go!
158: 🕹️ Super Mario AI 🔑 API keys in LLMs 🤙🏾 Vibe Coding Why is AI playing Super Mario? How is hallucinating the least of our worries and what are rules for developing Safety Critical Code?
157: CUDA in Python, Gemini Code Assist and back-dooring LLMs We met with a CUDA expert from NVIDIA about the future of hardware, we look at how AI fails and how to play pong on 140 browser tabs.
156: Enterprise dead, all about Bluesky and React moves on! Learn about Bluesky as a platform, how to build a React App and how to speed up SQL. And play an impossible game in the browser.

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