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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: Building AI-Native Code Platform With Java for Java
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Jonathan Ellis (@spyced) about:
brokk AI tool for code generation named after Norse god of the forge,
AI as complement to experienced programmers' skillsets,
age and productivity in programming,
transition from JVector to working on Cassandra codebase,
challenges with AI in large codebases with extensive context,
building tools for historical Java codebases,
comparison of productivity between younger and older programmers,
brute force coding vs experienced approach,
reading code quickly as a senior skill,
AI generating nested if-else statements vs better structures,
context sculpting in Brokk,
open source nature of Brokk,
no black boxes philosophy,
surfacing...