AI and Prompt Engineering

In this episode host Orlaith Lawton speaks with Oracle Cloud Engineering expert Alex Negu about AI and Prompt Engineering.

 

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Welcome to the Oracle Academy Tech Chat. This podcast provides educators and students in-depth discussions with thought leaders around computer science, cloud technologies and software design to help students on their journey to becoming industry ready technology leaders. Of the Future. Let's get started. Hello and welcome to the Oracle Academy Tech Chat, where we discuss how Oracle Academy prepares the next generation's workforce.
 
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I'm your host, Orlaith Lawton. And today we'll be talking about AI, a prompt engineering in the cloud. In this episode, I'm joined by my guest, Alex Nagel, an Oracle expert in cloud engineering. Alex is a senior cloud engineering manager at Oracle. He's responsible for overseeing projects in Central and Eastern Europe. Since joining Oracle, Alex and his team have tackled some of the most challenging cloud projects helping customers leverage the innovative services that Oracle offers from start-ups to large enterprises and even the public sector.
 
00;01;14;01 - 00;01;43;04
Alex has led over 100 cloud projects. Recently, he has focused on ground breaking achievements in artificial intelligence with expertise in areas ranging from data management to large language models. Alex is dedicated to facilitating A.I. adoption across diverse industries. To start off, can you give me a little bit about your background, Alex, and what you do at Oracle? Absolutely.
 
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My main job as a cloud engineer is to help our customers get the most out of their cloud services.  Basically, we work very closely with them, advising on everything from the design of the systems to making sure everything runs smoothly. I lead an awesome team, by the way, which means I get to learn from each of them and from different projects being involved in across central and eastern Europe.
 
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What's really cool about this role is that no two days are the same. We work with companies from all sorts of industries and each one comes with its own unique challenges. This means we spend a lot of time researching and finding the best solutions. It's a great way to keep learning and growing. Probably that's my favorite part of the job.
 
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Being involved in these projects, just to give you some examples, has given me insight into how financial system works, how airlines operate, how farmers take care of their crops, and how people in end use are tackling the most important challenges the one that seems to be unthinkable like plastic pollution in the Mediterranean Sea. You know, that's something really inspiring.
 
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Something I always like to highlight is the bigger picture when you're thinking about cloud and technology in general. Remember that those are just tools to solve the problems. You start with a challenge and then figure out what pieces you need to solve it. It literally is like we are playing with puzzles; we're trying to solve riddles every day.
 
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I think I have one of the coolest jobs in the world. You know, our role getting back to the initial question is to make sure we are solving our customer issues in the best and most optimal way, whatever that means. Yeah. We get to work with all kinds of exciting stuff, things like local development, blockchain automation across the stack, and of course artificial intelligence.
 
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But at the end of the day, it's all about solving real world problems. Wow, that's a huge amoun