 smoky outside I mean it's it's very cinematic so I don't want to complain too much she's got this vintage tea I got it from a girl a lot of people asked me it's just like American Thunder tea about to go hoop it's like my favorite t-shirt to hoop in I'm really weird when it comes to like apparel I wear when I play basketball all jokes aside this smoke is no joke and I'm running late so I'm with the all right so I just pulled up to the hoop session was in so much traffic the biggest dilemma in New York is do I pay $2 for a subway that can be 40 minutes or do I pay $25 for 20 minutes why not sometimes you just got a splurge for the convenience of peace of mind so for context I recently switched from being a developer evangelist to a developer advocate my primary focus has been the ownership of our dev phone the Tullio dev phone makes it a lot easier for you to test your Tullio applications especially when you don't have reliable or easy access to SMS and calling capabilities it uses Tullio products to send and receive calls in SMS from your local dev environment so essentially let's say you're doing a demo and you're using our API's show some sort of like communications application and let's say you don't have reliable service you can use a dev phone instead of your cell phone there's a few things that I've noticed since starting to program full-time again one imposter syndrome started to bubble up because I felt that I should have completed stories faster I've been relearning react after being someone experienced it was a challenge because I felt like there were a lot of concepts and react fundamentals like programming that I should have known also had to remind myself to be kind and I have grace and to just trust the process that over time I'll get into a rhythm so I bet you're wondering how AI fits into what I code in a day let me explain so we wanted to make our text input in our form for application to grow with the content inside of it and oddly enough HTML inputs don't like by default grow with the content inside of it which is just so weird considering that that will be such a common use case also notice that a lot of examples weren't very straightforward and the vanilla JavaScript examples don't directly correlate to react so honestly I figured why not just ask chat GBT it seems like a pretty easy question for AI to answer and it also would save me a lot of time which is something really viable as really the main person maintaining this code base at least the UI for the app so all I did was ask chat GBT how I can create a text input that grows dynamically and voila it responded with a solution in seconds with an explanation so I implemented chat GBT solution into a skeleton app to make sure a basic example would work then I implemented it into our app I didn't stop there my recommendation is after you get an answer from chat GBT or even like an answer you found on the internet is to try to figure out other ways of implementing it or just like simply watching a YouTube video and for me that was extremely helpful because I really wasn't sure what chat GBT was doing and I also want to make sure that I'm able to explain the code that I'm implementing and if it even makes sense using AI has saved me a significant amount of time which is one of its major benefits it allows me to be a more efficient programmer as a main person working on this product and working efficiently is crucial nonetheless this was really just a learning experience and we didn't even use a chat GBT answer as like our final solution we end up like removing our custom text input all together for the chat composer which is a component built inside our paste UI library framework that's really powerful and dynamic and gives us all the features we need and some so I figure why not come up here answer a couple questions in the ask me anything I posted on my Instagram story way too long so the first question is from underscore Nick Campos basically asking me how can I describe my journey in tech so my journey in tech I feel like was pretty traditional from like an educational standpoint majoring computer science graduated with computer science degree and got a full stack software development job as my first job but I feel like my path to where I am now went is like not very linear I meet a lot of people that jumped right into big tech jumped right into like a fan company and that just wasn't me or just jumped right into like some sort of tech company I joined a tech company but it was a small business to business tech company as a full stack dev then I realized I wanted to be a front-end dev and that they didn't have those type of job opportunities at that company so I transitioned to be a front-end web dev I really enjoyed it the problem was being a front-end web dev and digital marketing I was doing a lot of programming and just like kind of mundane work tedious work that didn't really help me elevate my skills as engineer so that's why I transitioned from that role to another role as a front-end software engineer and I really did enjoy that role it's just that I've always wanted to work for like a Silicon Valley based tech company and I also realized that my skill sets are beyond just being a programmer my passions go beyond being a programmer that's how I find out about developer evangelism and advocacy which is what I'm doing right now where I can make content and also do development next question is from Daniel LXES but what's your best tip for studying so I definitely wanted to answer this question because I think this is a really valuable for those of you all who are studying computer science software engineering or something technical my main tip is to not study on your own my first two years I remember I would study on my own I didn't have a study group and not only did I fail my first like course computer science course but I also really struggled and got really burnt out so my recommendation is to find a good group of peers especially peers who are smartening than you that you can learn from and that you guys can help each other especially when you're studying for exams one person studies this concept another person studies this other concept you come together at the end of the study session at the middle of the study session and talk about the things that you all learn or become kind of like a mini expert in and it also just makes learning so much more fun this question is from HGTP underscore DVNZT I can't pronounce any of these names I don't even know if they're pronounceable what keeps you motivated in general I was never the smartest person I was never the most talented I always felt like I had to work extremely hard to even be like a B to B plus student also growing up my mom worked so hard for us my mom had two jobs like most of my life so I just grew up seeing like hard work and for me like it goes beyond just being like motivated at this point it's just dedication one not only to my audience because I need to push out content for you guys because I wouldn't be here without you all and I like providing value but also dedication to myself and having something that I could say hey I was successful at this because I was consistent at it so really consistency and just dedication obviously like brand opportunities make me really inspired and really motivated but what gives you the most joy is like bumping into subscribers or people a part of my audience and person and them saying like hey I really enjoyed your content keep it up or someone in a comment section saying hey I sort of watch your videos X amount of years ago and I just landed a new job like that's what really motivates me because it's all about you and my dad also made sure that I could not be us and I cannot slack he made sure he pushed me academically and athletically and I'm forever grateful for him so it's really the combination of seeing my mom work multiple jobs you know my dad making sure I don't BS as a student athlete and then also understanding that I'm not the smartest person in the room I haven't ever been and I know I won't ever will be and that's really where the motivation comes from so that pretty much wraps up this video and getting out of my comfort zone and asking AI to help me with programming has really helped me like jump over that barrier of entry to getting more comfortable with using AI to help me become a more productive software engineer and obviously as like a content creator who also enjoys working on side projects I'm gonna be using AI a ton especially for those like edge like CSS use cases and at the end of the day I've been using it as a tool to help propel me to whatever finish line I'm looking to pass with that said that concludes this video I hope you guys enjoyed this video comment down below some ways you guys have been using AI be sure to give this video a thumbs up it helps out with the algorithm subscribe and hit the notification bell so 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