Craft 2024 - Matt Welsh
Matt Welsh
Founder and Chief AI Nerd at Ziggylabs.ai
About Matt Welsh

Matt Welsh is the founder of Ziggylabs, a Seattle-based startup developing human-friendly AI tech. He was previously cofounder at Fixie, head of engineering at OctoML, a software engineer at Apple and Xnor.ai, engineering director at Google, and a Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley.

Talk
Large Language Models and the End of Programming
Topics:
Software Delivery Craft Matters
ai
artificial intelligence
llms
programming
Level: General

The field of Computer Science is headed for a major upheaval with the rise of large AI models, such as ChatGPT, that are capable of performing general-purpose reasoning and problem solving. We are headed for a future in which it will no longer be necessary to write computer programs. Rather, I believe that most software will eventually be replaced by AI models that, given an appropriate descriptio...