Better Coding with AI: Friend or Enemy? (#62)

AI, LLMs, ChatGPT—these are just a few of the buzzwords of the massive revolution unfolding right now. These tools are reshaping how we work, but they come with a catch: while they help us work faster and smarter, we need to be careful about placing too much trust in them.

I’ve spoken with several guests at the JFall conference in the Netherlands actively working with these tools to learn more about them. And I had a chat with Grace Jansen about a recent Foojay blog post

Guests

Grace Jansen
linkedin.com/in/grace-jansen

Sean Li
linkedin.com/in/sean-li-568a8414

John Sterken
linkedin.com/in/jsterken

David Vlijmincx
linkedin.com/in/david-vlijmincx

Urs Peter
linkedin.com/in/urs-peter-70a2882

Joost Kaan
linkedin.com/in/joost-kaan

Links

foojay.io/today/run-ai-enabled-jakarta-ee-and-…

marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=IB…

docs.langchain4j.dev/integrations/language-mod…

foojay.io/today/building-project-panamas-jextr…

foojay.io/today/project-panama-for-newbies-par…

foojay.io/today/writing-c-code-in-java

Content

00:00 Introduction of topics and guests

01:07 Introduction of Grace and the Foojay blog post
02:31 What is Langchain4J?
03:23 What is JakartaEE?
04:25 What is MicroProfile?
06:33 Compare these tools with Spring
08:30 About the demo application of the blog post
11:32 What is an LLM, and what can it do?
13:41 Short-term evolutions in AI
16:49 Long-term predictions...
18:36 IBM Watson code assistant for VSC

19:45 Sean Li: Java at Microsoft
21:56 AI products provided by Microsoft
25:09 Code upgrades with a VSC extension

26:44 John Sterken: AI as a coding assistant

30:50 David Vlijmincx: Project Panama in relation to AI

34:53 Urs Peter: Generative AI, LLMs, and LangChain4J

40:20 Joost Kaan: Organizing an AI conference