The Importance of Thinking of AI as a Compiler

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When I stop doing dev tips and teaching code, I realized pretty quickly that I became obsolete very fast. So pause right there and then because of my recent like proximity to the stuff at work, like I'm working with AIs every day in doing my actual work. And I feel like an engineer again, I'm solving engineer problems and I'm doing it with a natural language but still feels the same. Like I'm thinking it through. I'm setting up functions. But it's through discussion with an AI. That is cool. Right. You can see them on YouTube now called prompt engineering or there's like, this going on. Even a job description you're seeing pop up on

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Travis Neilson about his work at Google, YouTube music, and where AI is at now, and where it’s headed in the future.

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00:37 Welcome
00:55 Guest introduction
Travis Neilson (@travisneilson)
Travis Neilson dot com
Travis Neilson on Skills Gap, Design, Focus and Working at Google — Syntax Podcast 142
Awwards Conference talk
https://www.youtube.com/LittleMusicBoxes
06:29 Convos about AI
07:49 How do we keep humanity with AI?
15:42 Is this the printing press or is this putting everyone out of a job?
19:21 What is Google using AI for these days?
25:59 How do we keep human interface via AI?
31:18 What is the evolution of AI chat windows?
34:05 How do you nourish your AI with data?
39:59 Halluncinations in AI
47:46 What models are exciting to you?
52:01 We’re building the window for the next generation
54:55 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××