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AI and Web Development: Hype or Reality

Talkat JSNation 2023 · on Thursday, 2023-06-01· at 17:00· [ai-assisted-development, machine-learning]

Claims AI gives developers a big productivity and quality boost and shows concrete wins: GitHub Copilot auto-completes boilerplate, generates typed dummy data, converts callbacks to async/await and makes reusable classes, but it sometimes loops on concurrency logic. A podcast pipeline condenses 15,000-token transcripts into ~6,000-token prompts, reliably returns parseable JSON, extracts URLs ~93.8% of the time, and builds search over 600 episodes using embeddings and a vector database, so most integrations work though edge cases remain.

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  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 0:52AI Hype or Reality
  3. 1:45AI in Web Development
  4. 3:12AI Experiments
  5. 4:00Why Use AI
  6. 11:24Bugs
  7. 11:48Integration
  8. 12:50Transcribing
  9. 13:28Token Limits
  10. 19:22Embedding
  11. 19:38DIY Tools
  12. 21:32Similar
  13. 21:42Syntax
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