Brian Risk, founder of devra.ai, shares his career journey from bartender and math teacher to bioinformatics researcher and data scientist, eventually building an AI-powered automated coding tool. He discusses how devra.ai leverages LLM APIs to let developers describe what they want in natural language, with the AI exploring the codebase and generating files, unit tests, and code without manual copy-pasting. Brian argues AI gets developers 80-90% of the way there but still requires skilled human oversight, comparing AI tools to excavators that make workers more productive but require greater skill to operate. He also offers entrepreneurial advice: always be curious, always be creating, and ship something you're passionate enough to finish.
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