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.

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.

Time for another SIGCSE - the big Computer Science Education conference. This time in St. Louis. St. Louis Arch This is something like my 10th SIGCSE and the fourth I've attended with my daughter who's in her first year as a grad student, pursuing her PhD in CS with a focus on education. At this point, I think she knows more people here than I do. Actually, that was something I was thinking about.