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From Myth to Legend: How Generative AI Can Supercharge Productivity to Create 10x Developers Logo

Gautam Korlam

Principal Engr. Dev Platform

Uber

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Gautam and Serdar at Uber explore whether Generative AI can match the productivity of a “10x developer”. They discuss results using Generative AI for tasks like refactoring, maintaining tests, incident management, and documentation enhancement. Their analysis reveals that while Co-Pilot and other tools make developers feel more productive, they produce only an average of 1-2 lines of usable code.

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Gautam and Serdar at Uber explore whether Generative AI can match the productivity of a “10x developer”. They discuss results using Generative AI for tasks like refactoring, maintaining tests, incident management, and documentation enhancement. Their analysis reveals that while Co-Pilot and other tools make developers feel more productive, they produce only an average of 1-2 lines of usable code.

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From Myth to Legend: How Generative AI Can Supercharge Productivity to Create 10x Developers

There is a lot of interest in the DPE world in the usage of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Co-Pilot to help improve developer productivity. In this talk, we explore ideas and applications of AI beyond writing code and see how it can help us maintain codebases, improve build times, manage incidents, root cause bugs, and provide support to truly make developers 10x more productive.

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Who is Gautam Korlam?

Gautam is a Principal Engineer on Uber’s Developer Platform Team. He is passionate about tools to improve developer experience in large codebases. He has spoken about a wide variety of topics around Monorepos, Build systems, CI & CD at scale, etc.