Experiments in AI, with Kevin Leneway of Pioneer Square Labs
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🗓️ 27 January 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Our guest this week is someone who is experimenting every day with AI, pushing the capabilities of the existing tools and technologies: Kevin Leneway, principal software engineer at the Pioneer Square Labs startup incubator in Seattle. He talks about the tools he's using across his personal and work life, and how they're transforming the process of innovation and creativity. He also shares details about a new project he's been working on, an AI coding assistant called JACoB.
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| 0:00.0 | One thing I've developed over the past year, especially with GPT4 coming out, is what I'm calling like this AI first mindset where anything I'm doing, whether it's a problem I'm trying to solve at work or even something at home |
| 0:14.5 | My first little thought in the back of my head is like huh. I wonder if chat |
| 0:18.6 | GPT could help me out with this and oftentimes I just try it sometimes it it works. Sometimes it doesn't. But I find just having that |
| 0:24.6 | mindset has unlocked a lot of really weird and interesting and creative uses of AI that I would have never |
| 0:31.4 | thought to do out of the box but once you start thinking |
| 0:35.2 | like that you start to uncover all sorts of random things like that and oftentimes |
| 0:39.5 | it's not something that's going to you know shift your day from working eight hours down to 30 minutes. |
| 0:46.2 | But if you can save a few minutes here and there, but do that 10, 20 times a day, |
| 0:50.8 | and it's really kind of transformational in terms of your productivity and some of the |
| 0:55.2 | capabilities that you unlock just by using this like simple text prediction tool. It's really kind of wild. Welcome to GeekWire. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. |
| 1:10.0 | We are coming to you from Seattle, where we get to report each day on what's happening around us in business, technology, and innovation. |
| 1:17.0 | What happens here matters everywhere, and every week on this show, we talk about some of the most interesting stories and trends in the news. this |
| 1:25.0 | we talk about some of the most interesting stories and trends in the news. This week I got to talk with someone who is experimenting every day with AI, |
| 1:28.0 | pushing the capabilities of the existing tools and technologies. |
| 1:32.0 | Kevin Lenaway, principal software engineer |
| 1:34.9 | at Pioneer Square Labs, the startup incubator in Seattle. |
| 1:39.0 | Kevin Lenaway, it's great to have you here. |
| 1:40.9 | Yeah, thanks for inviting me. |
| 1:42.0 | This is fun. So through a circuitous series of events I ended up saying, hey, I've got to get you on this show and one of them was the email that you said to me when we were talking about different AI tools saying you get to work |
| 1:56.2 | at Pioneer Square Labs and push these tools as far as you can get them to go, these AI tools, and you're having a lot of fun. |
| 2:06.6 | And as soon as I read that, I was like, Kevin, can you be on the podcast? |
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