The Double-Edged Sword of AI in Web Development

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through recent developments in AI and how they might be useful for developers, whether AI is still worthy of the hype, and whether developer jobs are at risk from AI.

• 00:10 Welcome
• 03:10 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
• 03:49 v0.dev
• v0 by Vercel
• 09:28 Anthropic and Claude
• Claude
• Syntax Listener Survey
• 18:02 Facebook’s Meta AI
• AI at Meta
• 18:48 Cloudflare AI
• Large language model (LLM)
• Speech to text
• Translation
• Sentiment Analysis
• Image classification
• Embedding
• 27:24 AI Hardware announced
• Rewind
• 29:39 Cloudflare Hugging face
• Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.
• StarCoder: A State-of-the-Art LLM for Code
• Vectorize: a vector database for shipping AI-powered applications
• 36:28 OpenAI Function calling
• Function calling and other API updates
• 38:55 GPT-4V
• GPT-4V(ision) system card
• 42:36 GitHub CoPilot
• 44:03 Are we still on the AI hype train?
• 48:27 Are our jobs at risk as developers?
• 52:24 Spotify DJ AI
• Spotify Debuts a New AI DJ
• 53:29 ChatGPT plugins
• ChatGPT plugins
• 55:19 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Scott: Coding App for Kids | codeSpark Academy
• Wes: Peter Santenello, Roblox

• Scott: Sentry
• Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials

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