The Future of Software Development

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Self-driving cars are not ready to take the steering wheel out yet. The pace of code being written is just even doubling, he says. Every 18 months, a developer's productivity doubles - that means we're doubling the number of programmers on the planet. "I think right now we live in a world where humanity is constrained by human ingenuity"

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Today’s show:

Jason is joined by Magic.dev CEO and Co-Founder Eric Steinberger to discuss how his startup makes developers more efficient with AI by auto-generating code. The first portion of the interview features Eric demoing his software. Then, Jason and Eric dive into the impact that these rapid AI advancements will have on society (31:28), how their tools have the potential to significantly minimize coding time and what that means for entrepreneurship (13:55), and much more!

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(00:00) Eric Steinberger joins Jason

(1:44) Eric and Jason explain what Magi.dev is

(3:43) Eric Demos Magic.dev

(9:13) What makes this AI model unique

(11:02) Crowdbotics - Get a free scoping session for your next big app idea at ⁠http://crowdbotics.com/twist⁠

(12:11) Magic.dev's motivation behind building their own language model

(13:55) The efficiency gains achieved with Magic.dev

(17:32) Exploring reinforcement learning and grounding the AI model

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(21:19) The two parallel paths unfolding

(23:57) How close we are to developing more capable AI systems