Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

Scott sits down with John Maeda, Vice President of Design and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft. Scott and John discuss the current state and future of artificial intelligence, how AI is transforming various industries and domains, and how to get started with Semantic Kernal. They also talk about some of the ethical and social implications of AI, and how to ensure that AI is used for good.

Adora Nwodo is a cloud software engineer and the author of Cloud Engineering for beginners. She chats with Scott about her role, how she thinks about the cloud and how she's working to get new engineers on a cloud-based path. Get her Cloud Engineering for Beginners or Beginning Azure DevOps book today!

Dr. Noriko Arai is a Japanese researcher in mathematical logic and artificial intelligence and a professor in the information and society research division of the National Institute of Informatics. Her project pitting an AI against the University of Tokyo entrance examination got her thinking about how well young students are able to read...

In this episode, Scott Hanselman talks to Guillermo Rauch, the founder of Vercel. Guillermo shares his vision of creating a platform that enables anyone to build and deploy powerful AI applications with ease and speed. Scott and Guillermo explore the challenges and opportunities of democratizing AI, and how Vercelis empowering users to create solutions and templates optimized for developer joy.

Shaun Walker was at the forefront of open source in the .NET space as early as 2003 with the release of DotNetNuke. Scott sits down with Shaun to reflect on two decades of .NET open-source, what works, what doesn't, and what's sustainable and Shaun shares his new OSS venture, Oqtane!

Danielle Boyer is an Indigenous (Ojibwe) robotics inventor and advocate for youth who has been teaching kids since she was ten. She focuses on youth advocacy and creates innovative learning solutions utilizing robots that she invents and donates to make technical education accessible. She sits down with Scott to talk about Cultural Robots and Language Preservation, and the intersection of Indigenous Culture and STEM.

When Peter Ayedun was asked to write a paper school, his teacher insisted that he used a computer to create it. That moment started and defined a decade's long career in tech that took him from Nigeria to starting a company in the US. Scott chats with Peter about finding passion, finding empathy, and finding a career in tech as the CEO of TruGrid.

David Scott Bernstein is a passionate programmer with over 40 years experience, and he has just written a book that teaches you the art of prompt writing. He actually coauthored the book with ChatGPT itself. He sits down with Scott Hanselman to offer us a one-of-a-kind journey into the realm of AI language models. He's created a a practical and results-driven roadmap for engineering your prompts in such a way that you can tackle complex topics with ease.

Tsavo Knott and the team at Pieces have an app that smooths the spaces between your developer tools. It makes you smarter and makes your workflow more seamless as you move code context from ide to web, from browser tab to clipboard, through your entire tool chain. How does Pieces promise to redefine atomic productivity for developers? Scott finds out of they will take code snippets to the next level on this episode.

Are you struggling with writing clear, concise, and effective technical documents? Do you want to learn how to improve your writing skills and communicate better with your audience? Scott interviews Pam Hurley, PhD, the founder and president of Hurley Write, Inc., a small business that specializes in teaching customized technical, business, and scientific writing courses...