Episode 288: Make AI Useful For You

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa

Guest:

• Grace Taylor [@GraceGTaylor]](https://twitter.com/gracegtaylor_)

Recording date: July 1, 2024

Brought to you by

• AG Grid
• IdeaBlade

Resources:

• Building Better Apps Better Together with AI
• YouTube Video by Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza on Building Better Together Apps
• Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Code Optimizations in AI
• Productive and secure end to end developer experience powered by AI

Timejumps

• 00:42 What is Canada Day, eh?
• 01:22 Introducing Grace Taylor
• 02:53 What is Better Together?
• 05:53 How does it work to figure out what's best for my app?
• 08:21 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 09:26 How do you know what the developer's intent is?
• 12:13 What interesting ways are users using AI?
• 15:07 What services are you using to build Better Together?
• 16:43 Is it the platform's job to make UX better, or should the industry teach prompt writing?
• 18:03 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 18:58 How can AI do better at supporting languages other than English?
• 23:48 How do code optimizations work?
• 29:40 What kind of feedback have you gotten?
• 31:38 Where can people learn more about Better Together?
• 32:58 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.