GitHub CPO: Developers should treat AI tools as technical abstraction layers
Inbal Shani · The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub) · Dec 1, 2023 · at 28:00
Inbal Shani, Chief Product Officer at GitHub, discusses the evolution of programming languages and how developers should selectively delegate tasks to AI.
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“There are areas that I will still go and write in C even today. I don't trust someone inverting metrics for me in an efficient way if it needs to run on a very small CPU. So I'll do that myself. On the other hand, there is going to be elements that I'm going to delegate to a higher abstraction tool. And that's exactly the way I think about AI. You pick and choose how you want to use it.”
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