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Episode 277: AI-powered UI Controls

Episode Summary

Bruno Capuano talks with us about .NET smart components and integrating them with AI, using it for smarter text field areas, where else AI is being used that we might not expect, and how can we make sure to have some guardrails for AI tokens in our applications.

Episode Notes

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell

Guest:

• Bruno Capuano @elbruno

Recording date: April 4, 2024

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

  

• IdeaBlade

Resources:

• Smart Components
• Daniel Roth “Introducing .NET Smart Components – AI-powered UI controls”
• What is Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• Bruno sharing an Intro to GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio
• Bruno sharing GitHub Copilot Best Practices within Visual Studio

Timejumps

• 00:28 Do you want smart or dumb AI?
• 01:58 Introducing Bruno
• 03:42 What is a .net smart component with AI?
• 08:26 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 09:24 What's a smart text area?
• 12:56 What is rag as it relates to AI?
• 18:11 How do we bring this to production as a developer?
• 23:28 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 24:21 Where else is AI being implemented?
• 26:20 How can companies make sure they don't overspend on AI tokens?
• 30:05 What have you built and learned from?
• 32:43 Final thoughts

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