Carl, staff software engineer at Pactum, shed light on some of the latest AI tools in software development. We discussed v0.dev, continue.dev, ollama, and much more! It was an episode with a lot of useful information and insights! To check all content on Map For Engineers including blog posts, feel free to subscribe on https://MapForEngineers.com

Annotated chapters in timeline on topics that Carl and I covered:

00:00:00 - Start

00:04:05 - Small talk, getting into the groove

00:08:18 - Carl's background: ex-Pipedrive, now engineer in Pactum

00:19:44 - Early tools: simple autocomplete and simple prompting without context

00:27:11 - AI tools with context: Cursor IDE, Continue.dev

00:43:35 - Cursor IDE Composer - Prompt+Apply to Code Instantly

00:47:29 - Ollama - following docker philosophy

00:55:15 - V0.dev - LLM to create frontend components

00:59:27 - Cursor IDE + v0.dev combination as a workflow

01:02:23 - Claude 3.5 Sonnet

01:03:10 - OpenAI o1

01:04:56 - LLMs vs SQL Queries - still to be solved

01:08:17 - LLM in TDD and Testing Workflows

01:16:04 - Focus on engineering fundamentals - LLM does not replace your engineering fundamental knowledge

01:20:13 - Book recommendations

01:29:09 - Hosting models yourself - expensive

01:33:27 - Fine-tuning models

01:35:33 - RAG

01:49:50 - Chain of thought

01:51:46 - vyce.app - GenAI helping with compliance questions

01:54:25 - Summary of tools we covered so far

01:58:43 - GenAI vs engineering careers

02:05:39 - Wrap up with Carl

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