S04E01 - Meaningful uses of AI - with Scott Hanselman
From Half Stack Data Science by Half Stack Data Science
March 3, 2025 · 43 min · Season 4 · Episode 1
About this episode
In this episode, David talks with Scott Hanselman about meaningful uses of AI and the developer community.
Season 4, all about AI, has launched! In the first episode of the new season we talked to Scott Hanselman. Scott is a programmer, teacher, and speaker. He works out of his home office in Portland, Oregon for Microsoft as the Vice President of Developer Community. He works on .NET, Open Source, and the Azure Cloud Developer Experience, but he also blogs about technology, culture, gadgets, inclusion, code, the web, where we're going and where we've been, and has a number of podcasts and a YouTube channel. We talked to Scott about his role at Microsoft and how he still loves to build things. We talked about AI as a brand, the risks of relying too much on tools like ChatGPT, and how developers can use these technologies meaningfully. We also discussed one of our favourite topics on the podcast, dark matter developers, a term we originally learned from a blog post by Scott himself. See episode 4, Getting Data in our first season for even more about this term. Please enjoy our conversation with Scott Hanselman! You can find Scott at https://www.hanselman.com -- David's book, The Well-Grounded Data Analyst is out! https://www.manning.com/books/the-well-grounded-data-analyst If you want…
People in this episode
Guest: Scott Hanselman
Topics covered
- AI
- programming
- developer community
- technology
Keywords
- Microsoft
- .NET
- Open Source
- Azure Cloud
- dark matter developers
Mentioned in this episode
Products: .NET, Open Source, the Azure Cloud Developer Experience, ChatGPT, Azure Cloud
Books & works: Getting Data in our, The Well-Grounded Data Analyst
Places: Portland, Oregon
More episodes of Half Stack Data Science
- S05E02 - Magical Glue Person · May 4, 2026 · 58 min
- S05E01 - Will GenAI kill software? · March 16, 2026 · 51 min
- S04E05 - 2025 in review · January 24, 2026 · 48 min
- S04E04 - Better survey design with AI - with Kirsten Hill · June 22, 2025 · 55 min
- S04E03 - AI-assisted journaling with reconfigured - with Richard Makara and Niko Korvenlaita · May 14, 2025 · 55 min
- S04E02 - Programming with AI - with Simon Willison · March 31, 2025 · 50 min
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Half Stack Data Science podcast page.