Benefits of AI in Assisting Developers

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The chapter explores how AI can assist developers in tasks by providing context and understanding desired outputs. Examples include generating seed data for databases, creating fake data for design purposes, summarizing text and video, and improving content generation and analysis. Emphasizing the importance of context, the speakers discuss leveraging AI in coding and personal AI assistants to enhance productivity and efficiency.

Join Scott and CJ as they dive into the fascinating world of AI, exploring topics from LLM token sizes and context windows to understanding input length. They discuss practical use cases and share insights on how web developers can leverage larger token counts to maximize the potential of AI and LLMs.

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00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
01:31 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
02:42 What is a token?
- Quizgecko GPT-4 Token Counter.
04:22 Context window sometimes called “max tokens”.
- OpenAI Platform Models.
- Claude Models.
10:42 Understanding input length.
11:59 Models + services with big token counts.
- Gemini Docs.
13:22 Generating open API documentation for a complex API.
17:29 Generating JSDoc style typing.
- Drop-In stolinski GitHub.
21:07 Generating seed data for a complex database.
- bytedash w3cj GitHub.
24:34 Summarizing 8+ hours of video.
29:35 Some things we’ve yet to try.
31:32 What about cost?
- Google AI for Developers Cost.