2024 DevFest Mbarara Presentation

These are the slides used during my presentation at the 2024 DevFest in Mbarara.
The presentation was titled "AI Assisted Workflows: How to level up your productivity at your work using AI Tools".

Key topics covered:
AI assisted graphics design,
Ai assisted software development,
AI assisted academic work and research
Choice of AI model and so much more.

I hope you find it informative and enlightening.

Transcript

1. AI ASSISTED WORKFLOWS How to level up your productivity at your work using AI Tools This presentation has some videos. They will not play in the PDF version (obviously). Here’s the link to the online version where the videos will play: https://shorturl.at/FgqaO Presented by Mubiru Simeon simeon@codewithsimeon.com
2. Today’s Agenda AI TOOLS Introduction Choice of tool Know your tools “AI will not take your job (yet). Someone that uses AI to do your job better than you will”
3. Categories Coders Programmers Prompt Engineers Innovators DB Architects Academi a Students Teachers Researchers Creative s Designers Artists Writers Editors Cinematograp hy
4. Coders Aider Cline Entire Project Generation Code Fixing Terminal Entire Project Generation Code Fixes VS Code Extension Continue.dev Gemini Android Studio Project IDX Code Completion Code Fixing Chat About Code Pair Programmer VS Code Extension Pair Programmers Model Choice Project Generation
6. The 4 Horsemen of Coding AI Gemini Top of the LMArena board Good code Reliable Cheapest American Claude 3.5 Sonnet Best AI Coder Gets overloaded Expensive American GPT 4o Good Code Reliable Cheap-ish American Deepseek Coder Sonnet-level good Cheapest Chinese
10. Notable Mentions Artifacts gemini.google.com canva.com chatgpt.com le chat tabnine
11. Research Revision Learning new concepts Writing Academia
12. Research Storm AI Deep Research By Stanford University Google It Ye Old Faithful Gemini Perplexity Chat Ai Search References Search GPT AI Powered Search Factual Grounding Model choice is not that big an issue
16. Notebook LM Chat GPT Voice Gemini Live Notable Mentions
17. Creatives Designers Artists Writers Editors Cinematography IDEATION CREATION 07
18. IDEATION Novel ideas Brain Storming Fact Checking
19. Graphics Creation Designs Assets +
22. Writing Composing Rewriting Fact checking
23. Video Composing Rewriting Fact checking
25. “Dread it, run from it, destiny arrives all the same” -Mahatma Ghandhi 01. AI IS HERE TO STAY Someone that knows how to use AI to do your job more efficiently will. 02. AI WONT TAKE YOUR JOB (YET) Chose the right tools for the right tasks. Practice makes perfect. 03. KNOW YOUR TOOLS Key Takeaways
26. Thank you simeon@codewithsimeon.com