I got to spend my Saturday at my first true builder event in Chicago, hosted by GDG Chicago. We helped 50 folks build all kinds of apps using Google technology. I learned a lot from their questions and I loved the diversity in the apps built. There were several I will personally use when they’re fully launched.
Early in my career as a professional programmer, I found myself in a subset of the Ruby community that was passionate about Extreme Programming (XP) and Agile. Those XP practices have shaped how I approach software engineering and have made me a successful user of AI in software development as well.
The simple truth is that I don’t know what the future of DevRel is. I have some ideas, but we’re all on an AI journey together, and sometimes it seems like the tech changes every day. In that world I’m a bit suspicious of anyone who claims to know the future, unless they have a time machine. But I am comfortable talking about trends that I’m seeing in how I personally work
I got into tech because I didn’t like school. It wasn’t that I disliked learning or got bad grades. I just never understood the way most schools work. Why should everyone who is the same age have to learn the exact same material at roughly the same rate?