#052 - AI Generates 90% of My Code

Backend Banter - A podcast by Boot.dev - Mondays

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In today’s episode, we welcome Natalie Pistunovich, host of the Go Time podcast, OpenAI Ambassador and Google Developer Expert for Go. She advises companies on how to make the most of AI and adopt it properly and also teaches the Cloud and Infrastructure course for B.Sc. students at the HTW Berlin. In this episode, we talk all about AI driven development and how is Go one of the best languages suited for code generation, the future of LLM’s and how can we boost the average developer’s job with AI, creating custom GPT’s, changes in the area of AI Chips, and a lot of other fascinating topics. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fm Natalie's Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/nataliepis Timestamps: 00:47 Who is Low Level Learning? 01:34 C is a High Level Language 02:47 Is C lower level than Rust or Zig? 04:33 Front-end vs Back-end, which is harder? 06:34 The Boot.dev stack 07:11 The Low Level Academy stack 07:59 Low Level Academy 09:56 Project-based learning 12:18 sqlc 14:44 How do you debug C? 17:26 Fuzzing Harness vs Unit Testing 22:28 Favorite Feature of C 23:45 If you could change one thing in C, what would it be? 26:53 Where do C programmers work? 29:16 The White House and Garbage Collectors 31:19 What is a side-channel attack? 33:56 Power side-channel attack 35:41 Side-channel attack on boot.dev 37:08 What tooling does Low Level Learning use to write C? 43:59 How do you deal with the lack of a package manager? 48:12 Opinion on statically compiled and dynamic libraries 50:36 Where to find Low Level Learning