Episode Description
In this episode, we talk with Pere Gimenez Febrer, a data scientist and developer advocate at Genie, about his journey from studying electrical engineering to working with Julia programming and Generative AI.
Pere shares insights on how AI tools transform his coding workflow, and his personal experiences with various AI applications, including practical tips for tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Midjourney. We also muse about the future of programming and what that could look like.
Chapters
[05:00] About Genie.jl and his role
[09:00] Favourite Julia package
[13:10] First GenAI use cases
[16:35] Some thoughts on GPT o1
[20:55] Experience with image generation
[24:30] Fun GenAI ideas when travelling
[27:50] About Genie Discount bot
[32:50] Programming’s future?
Links
Pere’s book recommendation: The Lies of Locke Lamora (series is not finished yet)
Pere’s favourite package: MLJ.jl - swiss-army knife for data science
Genie Framework: https://genieframework.com/ - a great choice for quickly building web apps from your Julia scripts
Join the Genie Discord to talk with the developers behind Genie
Pere’s hobby project for making deployments easier: Carryall.io - the logo was developed with Midjourney
Interested to join the community? Join the Julia Slack and channel #generative-ai
To stay informed about the various GenAI projects, check out the Awesome Julia GenAI List
If you have any feedback for me or the podcast in general, please share it via DM on Julia Slack (@svilup / Jan Siml) or in the Discourse announcement post
Thank you for listening!