Ahmad Nassri is *still* looking for the LLM magic
Ahmad Nassri sees a lot of promise in LLM based coding models, and talks us through the techniques, tools and approaches he takes personally, and that he sees teams taking when working with AI tools today.
Our first, in person interview on Engineering With AI, Ahmad is the CTO of Socket (http://socket.dev), a leader in Software Composition Analysis tooling.
https://www.ahmadnassri.com/
https://socket.dev/
As always, special thanks to our founding sponsor, Navalia!
https://navalia.io
00:00 Intro
01:53 About Socket
05:08 Ahmad's journey
08:15 Approach to LLM coding so far
13:04 Changes to how teams work?
28:25 BI Tools as a comparison
31:32 Story development and analysis
34:58 Reinforcement learning challenges
39:36 Abstraction levels changing
42:48 Coaching in the age of AI
46:15 Using the LLM to learn
48:29 Halliciation
51:45 Different models different strengths
54:18 Creating value over writing code
56:00 AI in Enterprise
1:00:36 Does best practice still work?