How do you teach an LLM to write code you can actually trust? Carol's federal government team has been tasked with exploring unattended AI code generation, so she came to Adam and Tim for advice. Their first piece of guidance: whatever tools you pick today will be obsolete by the time you're done evaluating them. The real goal isn't adopting a specific workflow—it's building the skills to ride the wave.

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Working Code

Adam Tuttle, Ben Nadel, Carol Hamilton, Tim Cunningham

241: Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords

DEC 6, 202549 MIN
Working Code

241: Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords

DEC 6, 202549 MIN

Description

How do you teach an LLM to write code you can actually trust? Carol's federal government team has been tasked with exploring unattended AI code generation, so she came to Adam and Tim for advice. Their first piece of guidance: whatever tools you pick today will be obsolete by the time you're done evaluating them. The real goal isn't adopting a specific workflow—it's building the skills to ride the wave.

Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday.

And, if you're feeling the lovesupport us on Patreon.

With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

Full show notes and transcript here.