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AI Assistants - Kent Dodds, "Ai assistants are a force multiplier"

"Ai assistants are a force multiplier" "Learn how to use efficiently" I watched Kents Epic dev course (15 mini videos) on how to use AI in your workflow. These are my notes. Customize your AI assistants. the more AI assistants know about you the better chatGpt 4 allows you set "custom instructions", which Kent uses to tell his role (web developer), frameworks & languages used (e.g. remix, typescript), some prettier rules, works on a mac, uses vscode etc. unfortunately this is a chatGpt 4.0 feature (I don't see in 3.5), but I asked chatGpt about it and it recommended you could start the conversation by providing this as context information and provide detailed instructions  you can also tell chaGpt how to respond e.g. "terse", "casual", "call me Denis", "consider new technologies and contrarian ideas", "be accurate and thorough" etc. I tried Kents query in 3.5 and it provided a better answer than 4.0

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is impressive

The more I learn about him, the more Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang impresses me. "No task is beneath me because remember I used to be a dishwasher and I mean that. I used to clean toilets. I've cleaned a lot of toilets. I've cleaned more toilets than all of you combined" - wow! his first job was at Dennys, they have a booth dedicated to him there - from  this Stanford talk An immigrant to the US where he attended high school. Graduated as an electrical engineer from Oregon State Uni 1984. Masters from Stanford in 1992. At age of 30 in 1993 founded Nvidia. Lost 80% of share price in the 2008 Great Recession. But has recovered spectacularly. He has ~40 direct reports. Doesn't understand why a CEO would have only a few reports. "The future of computing will be highly generated. Most of it is intelligence. In the future our computers will behave in that way." Highly generative versus retrieved. "Start from first principals" How would I build it if doing