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The Modern Developer Experience
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The Modern Developer Experience

by Steve Buchanan
March 2025
Intermediate to advanced
52 pages
1h 11m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 3. Using AI to Enhance DevEx

AI has been around for decades, but OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT to the public on November 30, 2022, marked a major shift in the trajectory of AI and the broader tech landscape. The popularity of AI, especially generative AI (GenAI) like ChatGPT, surged, capturing the attention of industries and the public alike. Microsoft’s significant investment in OpenAI led to the integration of AI across the company’s technology stack, including Azure cloud services, Office products, and developer tools like GitHub Copilot, which assists developers in writing and optimizing code.

The rapid rise of AI has spurred tech companies, both large and small, to race to bring AI-driven products to market or integrate AI capabilities into their existing offerings. This competition has driven innovation, benefiting consumers and professionals with AI-powered solutions from major players like Amazon AWS, Google (including its cloud services on Google Cloud Platform), ServiceNow, and Docker. AI is poised to become the next major technological shift, akin to the advent of the internet.

Even nonmajor tech businesses across all sectors are now strategizing on how to best leverage AI to optimize their operations, enhance customer service, boost marketing efforts, optimize finance, strengthen their tech infrastructure, and much more. Also in the tech field, AI’s influence spans IT leaders, project managers, infrastructure specialists, and developers, transforming workflows ...

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