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Conversation with EdTech founder, developers will go jobless and a current state of IT.

May 07, 2024

Yesterday I published my first video on YouTube. 🎉 It is something I fancy the most in life - conversation. The most powerful tool I have in my box. I was thinking about interviewing people and publishing video for a long time already - and now it became a reality. I am hooked and I plan to do more of them soon.

The goal is to give value to all the people who are building tech products. I hope that this will be of value the whole startup community - because everyone can learn lessons from those who have already built something.

I will focus especially on:

Technologies they use,
problems and solutions to them
and the methods of education (when talking with EdTech founders)

I will also be doing an AI-voice-overed interviews with engineers. 🦾 I believe in giving a voice to those who usually stand in the shadows, but form the foundations of software engineering. Developers are usually not gifted speakers, so those interviews will not be recorded live, but redacted and then replayed using AI powers. That should help focusing on a content rather than english grammar, accent or pronunciation.

You can view this Interview with Sophie on YouTube. There is also a short summarization on our blog. Take notice of her valuable advice to startup founders!

Sophie Carr is an educator and change-maker in the EdTech industry. As the founder of Octoped, a brand that enhances education through technology, she is driven to inspire other innovators and dreams of making a significant impact in education.

Conversations like this are pure pleasure.

Developers will go jobless?

A number of new AI models have been launched in recent weeks (which probably comes as no surprise to anyone anymore). The most famous of these are: Llama 3 of Meta and Phi-3 Mini from Microsoft. You can read more about them in this article.

Interestingly, these models are becoming more and more efficient, and therefore transferring more and more capabilities to standard PCs. No longer do you have to worry about sending your data to OpenAI in order to apply the tremendous capabilities that LLM provides. You can do it on your computer at home.

This is important insofar as it provides a basis, for example, for developers to use tools to support software development. I have noticed a rash of projects recently that aim to replace or support the programmer in one way or another.

- I have already written about the Devin system recently.

- Now there is also the open source project OpenDevin, which I have had the opportunity to test and describe the effects in this article.

- In addition, in recent days also GitHub has joined the game by making the Copilot Workspace tool available.

This space is getting more and more crowded and offers more and more powerful tools. I am watching this very closely because it will realistically affect the work of developers and software companies. It doesn't mean that programmers will stop being needed, that's for sure, but it's also certain that the job will never look the same again.

State of the IT industry

There is virtually no change in the wider software development industry.

Stagnation. 🤷‍♂️

There are still more specialists available on the market than there is demand for projects.

In fact, I have the impression that we are at a point where demand exactly meets supply. This state of affairs obviously won't last forever ... We just don't know whether demand will win out in the near future or whether supply will win out after all.

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