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You Are What You Build: Making Your Code More Human

The world is what we make it. Tech - and AI - follow the same principles.

On this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, we sit down with Christina Enchevta, a Director of Engineering at GitHub, to unravel the link between the values we hold and the things we build. We delve into how AI applications mirror our values, intentionally or not, and how this can lead to surprising outcomes, no matter how benevolent our intentions.

Christina also shares practical advice for engineering leaders on how to take and provide constructive feedback, dismantle information silos, and infuse your values into the product development process.

“If you’re going to do AI, know the history, know how it works, and pursue it with a diverse group of people.”

Episode Highlights:

  • (0:00) Accelerate State of DevOps survey
  • (1:27) GitHub's secret sauce
  • (5:05) Being transparent with your dev team
  • (11:30) Providing constructive feedback
  • (17:45) Generative AI & art
  • (22:40) Dismantling information silos
  • (26:50) What devs should be excited about

Read the full episode transcript


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