The Transformative Power of Generative AI in Software Development: Lessons from Uber's Tech-Wide Hackathon
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The Transformative Power of Generative AI in Software Development: Lessons from Uber's Tech-Wide Hackathon
Generative Tech is about what will actually touch us – what you can do with AI as a partner.
Until now, software has been used to refine our initial ideas into something useful; it was responsible for the second half of the process, if you will, of going from zero to something useful. But these new generative tools help you with the first half of th... See more
Until now, software has been used to refine our initial ideas into something useful; it was responsible for the second half of the process, if you will, of going from zero to something useful. But these new generative tools help you with the first half of th... See more
James Currier • Generative Tech Begins
Keely Adler added
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Keely Adler added
My thinking goes to – what new product experiences are uniquely enabled by generative AI or LLMs as a form factor? Or which existing products that solve a need can be made 100x better? I’m reminded of just *how* mobile-native Uber, Snapchat, and Instagram were – they simply couldn’t exist in a previous paradigm.
Aashay Sanghvi • 4 questions on AI
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Of course, the reality is more complex, and it’s better to think in terms of automation and autocomplete than vertical software and replacing designers, but whole layers of grunt work will be removed, just as they were with GUIs and SQL.
Benedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter: No. 547
Jimmy Cerone added
Not sure if this is positive, but the most coherent take on AI I’ve seen so far. Realistic but not panicked.
When it comes to identifying where generative AI can make an impact, we dig into challenges that commonly:
- Involve analysis, interpretation, or review of unstructured content (e.g. text) at scale
- Require massive scaling that may be otherwise prohibitive due to limited resources
- Would be challenging for rules-based or traditional ML approaches
Developing Rapidly with Generative AI
Nicolay Gerold added
Until now, software couldn’t solve the zero to one problem because it worked FOR us. Generative Tech will work WITH us from the beginning of any project.
James Currier • Generative Tech Begins
Keely Adler added
In a pre-AI world, in order to build an application, you needed to reduce your idea to a process—a set of rules by which your software would operate to accomplish the goal you set. Sometimes this was easy; for example, a customer relationship manager like Salesforce is naturally reducible to rules.
In a post-AI world, you can build applications for ... See more
In a post-AI world, you can build applications for ... See more