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\"\"<\/a>If you’re a developer, there’s a good chance you’ve experimented with coding assistants like GitHub Copilot. Many developers have even fully integrated these tools into their workflows. One way these tools accelerate development is by autocompleting entire blocks of code. The AI achieves this by having awareness of the surrounding code. It understands context. However, in many cases the context available to an AI is limited. This restricts the AI’s ability to suggest more sweeping changes to a codebase, or even to refactor an entire application.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Quinn Slack<\/a> is the CEO of Sourcegraph<\/a>. He is now hard at work on the challenge of giving more context to AI – to make it aware of entire codebases, dependencies, error logs, and other data. Quinn joins the show today to talk about what it takes to move beyond code autocomplete, how to develop the next generation of coding AI, and what the future looks like for software engineers and programming languages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write better TypeScript more easily, most notably on typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh regularly contributes to open source projects in the ecosystem such as ESLint and TypeScript.<\/div>\n
Josh is a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies and the author of the acclaimed Learning TypeScript<\/a> (O\u2019Reilly), a cherished resource for any developer seeking to learn TypeScript without any prior experience outside of JavaScript. Josh regularly presents talks and workshops at bootcamps, conferences, and meetups to share knowledge on TypeScript, static analysis, open source, and general frontend and web development.<\/div>\n
You can find Josh on: Bluesky<\/a>, Fosstodon<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Twitch<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>, and joshuakgoldberg.com<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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