Earlier today I spoke at the Microsoft Reactor meetup in Berlin about frontend development, LLMs, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot and what it means to our work and careers. In this 32 minute talk and 5 minutes of Q&A, I covered a lot of ground:
- Introduction
- Web Development isn't complex technology
- GPT can create web products from a doodle, or can it?
- WYSIWYG was never a thing for the web
- Building web designs from prompts
- What Web Development is not
- Things a web design needs to cater for
- What Web Development means
- ChatGPT and conversational UI
- AI will take our jobs - and that's OK
- Focusing on productivity
- From Smart Autocomplete to AI Peer Programmers (GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer and GhostWriter AI Mode)
- Valid criticisms of machine aided code completion
- The full StackOverflow Developer
- More than Automated Copy + Paste
- Context Recognition
- Code Explanation
- Code Translation
- Benefits of a "learning" code environment
- Evidence of effectiveness of AI code completion
- Code Brushes as a different interaction model
- GitHub Copilot X
- Chat inside the code editor
- Chat interface for docs
- Pull request generation
- Copilot for CLI
- Code by voice recognition
- Voice access helps people and shouldn't be a hustle aid
- Augmenting code practices instead of replacing them
- Focus shift from writing to reviewing code
- New skill: Asking the right questions
- Prompt Engineering (Course on LinkedIn Learning)
- This is a great time to be a developer
- Q&A
It was great to present and I am looking forward to expand on some of these topics as they become more available.
Top comments (4)
This post needs some code. Please include the source directly in your post instead of linking to external sources. See "how to ask a good question" ...oh wait, this is not my StackOverflow review queue... 😆I will watch the video later when I have time and an opportunity to listen to the sound as well, but still I would like to like some code examples of centering div elements until 2021.
Just nest
blockquoteelements around it until the indentation feels half the screen minus the width of the DIV.There you go:
Remember the
<center></center>Tag? 😅