Better Coding with AI: Friend or Enemy? (#62)

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AI, LLMs, ChatGPT—these are just a few of the buzzwords of the massive revolution unfolding right now. These tools are reshaping how we work, but they come with a catch: while they help us work faster and smarter, we need to be careful about placing too much trust in them.
I’ve spoken with several guests at the JFall conference in the Netherlands actively working with these tools to learn more about them. And I had a chat with Grace Jansen about a recent Foojay blog post
Guests
Grace Jansen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-jansen/
Sean Li
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-li-568a8414/
John Sterken
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsterken/
David Vlijmincx
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-vlijmincx/
Urs Peter
https://www.linkedin.com/in/urs-peter-70a2882/
Joost Kaan
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joost-kaan/
Links
https://foojay.io/today/run-ai-enabled-jakarta-ee-and-microprofile-applications-with-langchain4j-and-open-liberty/
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=IBM.wca-eja
https://docs.langchain4j.dev/integrations/language-models/
https://foojay.io/today/building-project-panamas-jextract-tool-by-yourself/
https://foojay.io/today/project-panama-for-newbies-part-1/
https://foojay.io/today/writing-c-code-in-java/
Content
00:00 Introduction of topics and guests
01:07 Introduction of Grace and the Foojay blog post
02:31 What is Langchain4J?
03:23 What is JakartaEE?
04:25 What is MicroProfile?
06:33 Compare these tools with Spring
08:30 About the demo application of the blog post
11:32 What is an LLM, and what can it do?
13:41 Short-term evolutions in AI
16:49 Long-term predictions...
18:36 IBM Watson code assistant for VSC
19:45 Sean Li: Java at Microsoft
21:56 AI products provided by Microsoft
25:09 Code upgrades with a VSC extension
26:44 John Sterken: AI as a coding assistant
30:50 David Vlijmincx: Project Panama in relation to AI
34:53 Urs Peter: Generative AI, LLMs, and LangChain4J
40:20 Joost Kaan: Organizing an AI conference