Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

588: When a designer meets a developer with Jeremy Blaze

Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Show Notes

Sami faces his fear of program designers by talking with Jeremy Blaze, Founder & Design Lead at Never Before Seen.

Together they ask the question of whether their roles as developer and designer are slowly become one, how to rediscover the challenge of working on code when AI can do so much heavy lifting, as well as grappling with the idea of a therapeutic AI.

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