Dev Educator Kent C. Dodds on the Future of Learning, Best AI Coding Tools & Finding Tech Community

"So anytime I can, I try to say, "Okay, we're going to build a naive version of this. It's not going to cover all the edge cases, and that's fine. But now you have an understanding that it's not magic — it's just code, and it's actually simpler than you think".

Join our conversation with Kent C. Dodds — speaker, teacher, and trainer — who is actively involved in the open-source community as a maintainer and contributor to hundreds of popular npm packages. He is the creator of EpicReact.Dev and TestingJavaScript.com, and an instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters. He’s also a Google Developer Expert.

The co-hosts are Nick Nisi and Kevin Ball, JS Party podcast ex-co-hosts.

In this chat with Kent, we dive into how AI is changing the way we learn web development, tips for improving debugging skills, his go-to AI tools, what’s currently exciting in tech, why he thinks conferences like React Summit US are still worth attending, and some practical networking tips.

Timecodes:

0:00 – Intro
0:38 – Who's Kent C. Dodds?
1:25 – Does learning web dev change now because of AI?
4:57 – How can you help someone learn to debug?
8:33 – What AI tools help you with your lessons?
11:32 – What are you excited about right now in tech?
20:39 – Have you ever written code mods?
23:11 – Why are conferences like React Summit worth attending?
27:52 – Networking tips for conferences
30:06 – "The biggest and most amazing things are accomplished by people working together".

Learn more about Kent: https://kentcdodds.com
Learn more about Nick: https://nicknisi.com
Learn more about Kevin: https://www.kball.llc

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