Jim is Head of Developer Advocacy at Pieces, focusing on enabling developers to be more productive by leveraging contextual awareness of not only the code they write, but the content the read and the conversations they have. He’s British, so sounds way smarter than he actually is, and lives in the Pacific North West of the USA. In the past he’s lived in 4 continents working as a developer and engineering manager on back end, desktop, mobile and cloud applications across scientific software, banking, IoT and more. He's spoken at conferences and events all around the globe, organized meetup groups and communities, and written books on mobile development and IoT. He also hates and is allergic to cats, but has a 11-year-old who loves cats, so he has 2 cats. Above average Star Wars fan!

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbobbennett/

Website: https://pieces.app/

YouTube: @jimbobbennett

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TIMESTAMPS:

2:25 - Star Wars background chat

3:51 - How we met

5:55 - Favorite Star Wars movie

15:47 - Jim's Background

19:49 - Use cases for Pieces for Developers

23:23 - Comparing Pieces to other AI co-pilots

25:24 - Comparing Microsoft Recall

29:06 - Impacts of AI and developer adoption

31:53 - AI hype for problems that don't exist

32:29 - Start-up product enablement

34:25 - AI auto apply tools

37:03 - Tech job market

39:05 - Should people continue learning to code

42:54 - AI company to write 8,000 books per year, but will anyone read?

45:04 - The Last Screenwriter movie trailer

47:04 - Challenges measuring developer productivity

51:49 - Is there a place for grumpy yet talented developers on a team?

55:03 - Success in a job is 80% soft skills, 20% technical skills

57:51 - Issues with live coding interviews

59:39 - Alternative ways to evaluate developers

1:04:00 - Benefits of the contract-to-hire model

1:06:03 - Running half marathons

1:10:53 - Habits that have led to Jim's success working from home

1:16:47 - Questions for a recruiter (importance of networking)

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