Varun Mohan is the cofounder and CEO of Codeium, an AI code generation tool used by hundreds of thousands of developers. They recently announced their $65M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Greenoaks and General Catalyst. He was previously at Nuro. He has a bachelors and masters degree from MIT.

Varun's favorite book: The Idea Factory (Author: Jon Gertner)

(00:00) Introduction and State of Play
(03:03) What Generative AI Can Do Well
(06:10) Introduction to Codeium
(08:53) Handling Different Programming Languages
(11:26) Model Architectures and Optimization
(13:27) Interpreting and Trusting AI Decisions
(18:33) Security and Privacy Considerations
(20:07) Impact on Software Quality and Developers
(21:50) Potential Obsolescence of Programming Languages
(23:39) Handling Edge Cases
(26:07) The Biggest Impact of Generative AI for Coding
(28:27) Technological Breakthroughs in Generative AI
(29:30) Rapid Fire Round

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