Christian Heilmann

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 […]

This is the time to be unpredictable and human

March 28th, 2023

I was just about to write a blog post on my current experiences in trying to find a new job. I wanted to write about the frustrations and how it feels ridiculous that developers and recruiters aren’t best friends. And then I remembered that Microsoft Edge now comes with a HUGE Bing icon that promised […]

WYSIWYGPT

March 24th, 2023

When GPT-4 was announced earlier this month, one of the demos made a massive splash: painting a web app on a napkin and getting the “AI” to create the HTML, CSS and JavaScript to make it work. This caused an avalanche of news items and blog posts calling “game over” for web developers and that […]

Looking for a new opportunity

March 21st, 2023

End of May will be my last day at Microsoft and I am actively looking for a new role. Thank you in advance for any connections, advice, or opportunities you can offer. What I am looking for: A technical lead role – CTO, Technical Director or Principal Product/Program Manager A team to work with and […]

Newsletter

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

Don't stop thinking, AI Slop vs. OSS Security, rolling your own S3 Despite AI you still need to think, Bitter lessons from building AI products,  AI Slop vs. OSS security and pointer pointer…
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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