The Journey of a Developer: From Mobile to AI-Powered Startups

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This chapter chronicles the transition of a software engineer from mobile to web development, detailing key career experiences at companies like Sony Ericsson and Walmart, along with the challenges faced during solo projects. It emphasizes the impact of AI technologies, particularly in the creation of type.ai, an AI-driven document editor, and discusses the strategic choices involved in integrating various language models. Additionally, the chapter highlights the importance of user experience in software design and the growing trend of 'local first' approaches in application development.

In 2022, Stefan Li and Stew Fortier envisioned a document editor with language model features built in. They founded Type.ai, received backing from Y Combinator, and have since been at the frontier of building a next-generation document editor. However, to ensure a robust and performant frontend, Type.ai needed to take advantage of many modern browser features.

Stefan Li is the CTO of Type.ai, and he joins the show to talk about the state of frontend dev, the service worker API, IndexedDB, the SharedWorker interface, Web Locks, and more.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.