AI-Powered Peer Programming with Vasi Philomin - #594

Published: Oct. 10, 2022, 4:58 p.m.

b'Today we\\u2019re joined by Vasi Philomin, vice president of AI services at AWS, joins us for our first in-person interview since 2019! In our conversation with Vasi, we discussed the recently released Amazon Code Whisperer, a developer-focused coding companion. We begin by exploring Vasi\\u2019s role and the various products under the banner of cognitive and non-cognitive services, and how those came together where Code Whisperer fits into the equation and some of the differences between Code Whisperer and some of the other recently released coding companions like GitHub Copilot. We also discuss the training corpus for the model, and how they\\u2019ve dealt with the potential issues of bias that arise when training LLMs with crawled web data, and Vasi\\u2019s thoughts on what the path of innovation looks like for Code Whisperer.\\xa0\\nAt the end of our conversation, Vasi was gracious enough to share a quick live demo of Code Whisperer, so you can catch that here.'