The Stack Overflow Podcast   /     The creator of PyTorch Lightning on the AI hype cycle

Summary

The home team chats with William Falcon, an AI researcher and creator of PyTorch Lightning, about developing tooling for the AI ecosystem, open-source contributions, what happens when widely hyped technology needs to scale, and why he’s bullish on experienced developers using AI but not so bullish on new devs doing the same.

Subtitle
The home team chats with William Falcon, an AI researcher and creator of PyTorch Lightning, about developing tooling for the AI ecosystem, open-source contributions, what happens when widely hyped technology needs to scale, and why he’s bullish on exp
Duration
00:32:04
Publishing date
2024-02-13 05:20
Link
https://stackoverflow.blog/podcast/
Contributors
  Ben Popper, Ryan Donovan
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Enclosures
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Shownotes

William is the CEO of Lightning AI and the creator of PyTorch Lightning, the lightweight PyTorch wrapper for high-performance AI research.

Dive into their docs or explore the developer community.

ICYMI: Across tech, layoffs are boosting share prices.

Follow William on Twitter or connect with him on LinkedIn.

Shoutout to Brian61354270, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils' in Python 3.12.