Still in St. Louis but we're now up to sessions and BOFs. On Thursday, I attended two sponsor sessions on AI. One by GitHub and the other Google. In retrospect, they were both really the same session - on how their developers and other professionals are using AI. The big difference? Do you want your AI co-pilot flavored or Gemini/Antigravity? The key points from the GitHub session was that when using AI, context is everything - it's easy to say "build me a minecraft code" because the term "minecraft code" brings all the context.

Still stuck in St. Louis and still haven't finished my SIGCSE series but there have been a few threads in the various CS Education groups about the big changes in code.org and how AI might be making learning CS the way we've been teaching it obsolete. Rubbish and here's a couple of stories as to why. Let's go back to the start of this century. 9/11 had just placed America into a state of shock.

I was going to wait to write this up until I got home. The conference ended on Saturday and it's now Monday afternoon and we're still in St. Louis due to the east coast blizzard. Right now we're booked on a flight home for Wednesday morning but I think there's more snow expected then so we'll see. As to the keynotes, well two keynotes and one panel, they were all solid and thought or maybe better, discussion provoking.