Leveraging AI to Keep Up w the Evolving AI Landscape - Part 1: AI-Powered Development Series

In this kickoff session, Eddie Freeman tackles a challenge every developer faces today: how to stay current in the rapidly evolving AI landscape without getting overwhelmed. Drawing from his experience of "creating something from nothing," Eddie will share practical strategies for building a sustainable system to monitor, understand, and implement AI developments in your workflow.

📝 What We'll Cover
If you're new to AI development, we recommend watching Christopher Chedeau's foundational talk on ML/AI fundamentals before this session. We'll review the landscape of AI and the fundamental challenge we all face: keeping up with its rapid evolution. Then, Eddie will walk you through their practical setup for: staying sane in the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem, elevating the most relevant development, and using agentic patterns to connect with your existing second brain/reference system

🔍 What Makes This Session Special
Eddie brings a unique perspective as someone who has recently completed "Level Up from Software Engineer to AI Engineer" by Swyx and Noah Hein. As a valued member of the G2i developer community, his fresh insights combined with over a decade of software development experience offer a valuable perspective on how traditional developers can effectively navigate the AI landscape.

🗓️ Series Context
This session is part of our monthly AI-powered development series, running through April 2024. While we use Cursor as our shared development environment, the series covers broader AI development concepts and practical implementations. Future sessions will feature community experts sharing insights on building AI platforms, making architecture decisions with AI, and more practical applications of AI in development.