Nick and Zack from WorkOS @ AIE: building real-world AI tools & running conference workshops

About this episode

Zack Proser and Nick Nisi from WorkOS discuss building AI tools and conducting impactful workshops for AI engineers.

In this episode, Zack Proser and Nick Nisi from WorkOS share what they’ve learned from building real-world AI tools and running high-impact workshops for AI engineers. We talk about finding "developer balance" by feeding biometric data into LLMs, the evolution of "skills" as a software primitive, and how to build seamless agentic loops that connect Slack, Linear, and Notion to eliminate context switching. Links: - WorkOS - Zack Proser - Nick Nisi

People in this episode

Host: Jack Bridger

Guests: Zack Proser, Nick Nisi

Topics covered

• AI tools
• workshops
• developer balance
• biometric data
• context switching

Keywords

• AI
• developer tools
• biometric data
• Slack
• Linear
• Notion
• context switching
• workshops

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: WorkOS

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