D2DO266: How AI Affects the Developer Experience
aka, shifting the mental load towards your reviewers
Day Two DevOps
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Summary
Let’s talk about how AI affects the developer experience, particularly for open source tools such as Terraform. We’re joined by guests Welly Siauw and Tyler Lynch to examine a project that leverages AI to automate the generation of documentation and examples for AWS Terraform providers. We delve into the iterative development process with AI, the importance of human oversight to ensure quality and accuracy, the cost benefits, and the potential of open-source for broader community use.
Episode Guests: Welly Siauw and Tyler Lynch
Welly Siauw, Principal Partner Solutions Architect, AWS
As the Principal Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, Welly Siauw’s focus lies in fostering innovation within the DevSecOps landscape, serving as a strategic technical advisor to key software vendors. His team’s efforts are instrumental in shaping the future of AWS partnership with ISVs, ensuring AWS remains at the forefront of technological advancements. His hands-on experience in designing and implementing cloud architectures is complemented by his ability to influence product roadmaps and drive innovation. Collaborating closely with senior stakeholders, his team successfully integrate AWS and ISV partner solutions to create robust, scalable, and secure cloud environments.
Tyler Lynch, Field CTO, Hashicorp
Tyler Lynch is a technical solutions architect and software engineer with 20+ years experience in hands-on architect & management roles. Tyler helps teams to deliver highly scaling, fault tolerant products that meet user’s needs and expectations, accelerate their projects, reduce costs, and consider complex trade offs when designing systems. Tyler helps support and contribute to open source software. Tyler is currently in the top 10 contributors of the AWS provider for Terraform, and a Core Contributor for Terraform.
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Thanks all! Good luck out there.
kyler