Adrian CockcroftI’m in Denver/Broomfield for a few days for the SW2con (used to be Gluecon) event. Giving a talk on Weds. meeting a bunch of old friends. https://www.sw2con.com/#agenda
#SW2con started out with an excellent keynote from the #RedMonk analyst team, the intersection of developers and AI, how we got here and what are the issues. Some papers to read linked from the QR codes. /cc @CSLee @rstephensme
#SW2con second keynote is Datastax CTO Jonathan Ellis talking about vector databases. Very deep dive into the tech. Great to see Jonathan again… he spent the last year building open source JVector https://github.com/jbellis/jvector
#SW2con next keynote is a talk on GitHub Copilot, how it works, the development and tuning process behind getting it to work well, by Mario Rodriguez - Senior VP of Product at Microsoft.
#SW2con Emily Johnson from IBM - first time speaker - doing a great job talking about observability with Instana and optimization with Turbonomic. I was an advisor to Instana when they started, and it’s good to see IBM developing and supporting the product after they acquired the team.
#SW2con next up I’m in the Code-assists track hearing from Aso Kukic of Sourcegraph about their Cody tool. Start by defining levels of Code AI assist. Human-initiated, AI initiated, and AI led.
The Cody talk was a bit high-level, didn’t learn as much as I expected about how they work and what’s different between various copilot approaches.