June 2025
Intermediate
59m
English
video
Chelsea Troy Live with Tim O'Reilly: AI and Developer Productivity, How AI Changes the Job, and More
by Chelsea Troy, Tim O'Reilly
Closed Captioning available in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
Overview
Do large language models make developers 26% more productive, as a paper recently claimed? Chelsea Troy, leader of Mozilla’s MLOps team and a lecturer in computer science at the University of Chicago, isn’t so sure.
Informed by her long career in software, Chelsea has sharp opinions about how generative AI tools relate to the actual work developers do and how that job is changing. Join in to learn where (and for whom) GenAI is most effective, some patterns that you may find particularly relevant, and the skills AI-enabled engineers actually need to have to excel.
Recommended prep or follow-up:
- Follow and explore Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It (expert playlist)
- Read AI Engineering (book)
- Read Generative AI for Software Development (early release book)
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