2023 in Review on Web Rush #265

What impacted developers most in 2023? AI? The job market? Challenges with testing? Moving back to the office? Crypto and blockchain? We're reviewing some of our top stories of 2023.

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Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Recording date: Dec 14, 2023

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

Resources:

• ChatGPT released
• Bing Image generation
• AI Hallucination
• Responsible AI
• Great Ezra Klein podcast on the state of AI in 2023 and where it is going
• GitHub Copilot
• Is Scrum dead?
• Zeitgeist
• Why use a web framework
• Bargaining for our very existence
• Why hasn’t TDD Taken Over the World?” - by Dave Farley

Timejumps

• 00:27 Welcome
• 02:08 AI had a big coming out
• 10:30 Ways to deal with hallucinations
• 14:00 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 15:01 Growing discontent with testing
• 19:37 What processes do we need to challenge?
• 23:19 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 24:17 The job market
• 29:54 Where's crypto and blockchains?
• 31:47 In person conferences
• 35:33 Are we moving back to the office?
• 39:48 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.