Foojay Podcast #62: Better Coding with AI: Friend or Enemy?

AI, LLMs, ChatGPT—these are just a few of the buzzwords of the massive revolution unfolding right now.

These tools are reshaping how we work, but they come with a catch: while they help us work faster and smarter, we need to be careful about placing too much trust in them.

I’ve spoken with several guests at the JFall conference in the Netherlands actively working with these tools to learn more about them. And I had a chat with Grace Jansen about a recent Foojay blog post.

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Guests

• Grace Jansen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-jansen/
• Sean Li: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-li-568a8414/
• John Sterken: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsterken/
• David Vlijmincx: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-vlijmincx/
• Urs Peter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/urs-peter-70a2882/
• Joost Kaan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joost-kaan/

Links

• https://foojay.io/today/run-ai-enabled-jakarta-ee-and-microprofile-applications-with-langchain4j-and-open-liberty/
• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=IBM.wca-eja
• https://docs.langchain4j.dev/integrations/language-models/
• https://foojay.io/today/building-project-panamas-jextract-tool-by-yourself/
• https://foojay.io/today/project-panama-for-newbies-part-1/
• https://foojay.io/today/writing-c-code-in-java/

Content

00:00 Introduction of topics and guests

01:07 Introduction of Grace and the Foojay blog post

02:31 What is LangChain4J?

03:23 What is JakartaEE?

04:25 What is MicroProfile?

06:33 Compare these tools with Spring

08:30 About the demo application of the blog post

11:32 What is an LLM, and what can it do?

13:41 Short-term evolutions in AI

16:49 Long-term predictions…

18:36 IBM Watson code assistant for VSC

19:45 Sean Li: Java at Microsoft

21:56 AI products provided by Microsoft

25:09 Code upgrades with a VSC extension

26:44 John Sterken: AI as a coding assistant

30:50 David Vlijmincx: Project Panama in relation to AI

34:53 Urs Peter: Generative AI, LLMs, and LangChain4J

40:20 Joost Kaan: Organizing an AI conference