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JetBrains AI with Jodie Burchell

Jan 16, 2024

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Jodie Burchell is the Data Science Developer Advocate at JetBrains, which makes integrated development environments or, IDEs, for many major languages. After observing the rapid growth of the AI coding assistant landscape, the company recently announced integration of an AI assistant into their IDEs.

Jodie joins the show today to talk about why the company decided to take this step, the design challenges of adding AI tools to software products, and the team’s particular interest in auto-generating code documentation. Jodie also talks about the different types of language AIs, how AI tools will impact software development, and more.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer .