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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Dev Digest 146: 🥱 React fatigue 📊 Query anything with SQL 🧠 AI News

Why it may not be needed to learn React, why Deepfake masks will be a big problem and your spirit animal in body fat! 

Dev Digest 147: Free Copilot! Panel: AI and devs! RTO is bad! Pi plays!

Free Copilot! Experts discuss what AI means for devs. Don't trust containers. Mandated RTO means brain drain. And Pi plays Pokemon!

Dev Digest 148: Behind the scenes of Dev Digest & end of the year reports.

In 50 editions of Dev Digest we gave you 2081 resources. Join us in looking back and learn about all the trends this year.

Dev Digest 149: Wordpress break, VW tracking leak, ChatGPT vs Google.

Slowly starting 2025 we look at ChatGPT vs Google, Copilot vs. Cursor and the state of AI crawlers to replace web search…

Dev Digest 150: Shifting manually to AI.

Manual coding is becoming less of a skill. How can we ensure the quality of generated code? Also, unpacking an APK can get you an AI model.

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