Generative AI for Coding
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Varun Mohan is the cofounder and CEO of Codeium, an AI code generation tool used by hundreds of thousands of developers. They recently announced their $65M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Greenoaks and General Catalyst. He was previously at Nuro. He has a bachelors and masters degree from MIT. Varun's favorite book: The Idea Factory (Author: Jon Gertner) (00:00) Introduction and State of Play (03:03) What Generative AI Can Do Well (06:10) Introduction to Codeium (08:53) Handling Different Programming Languages (11:26) Model Architectures and Optimization (13:27) Interpreting and Trusting AI Decisions (18:33) Security and Privacy Considerations (20:07) Impact on Software Quality and Developers (21:50) Potential Obsolescence of Programming Languages (23:39) Handling Edge Cases (26:07) The Biggest Impact of Generative AI for Coding (28:27) Technological Breakthroughs in Generative AI (29:30) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com  Website: https://prateekj.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19  Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 
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