Building Software While Keeping Humans in Charge

Building Software While Keeping Humans in Charge

From Screaming in the Cloud by Corey Quinn

January 29, 2026 · 30 min · Episode 665

About this episode

Alyss Noland discusses building software with AI and the importance of human oversight.

Alyss Noland, who works on Cloud Dev Ecosystem at Nvidia, is back on the show to talk about building software with AI when you're not a real developer. Alyss runs a program that gives AI startups access to Nvidia GPUs and uses AI tools herself to build production software at Nvidia. Corey and Alyss discuss using AI to help curate newsletters without actually writing them, why humans still need to check everything, and the weird reality of people developing relationships with chatbots. Show Highlights: (01:34) What Alyss Does at Nvidia (05:44) When AI First Worked for Corey (07:34) Building Internal Tools vs Using AI (10:39) Using AI to Help Write Last Week in AWS (13:43) DGX Cloud Innovation Lab (17:11) Building Production Software with AI (20:48) The Future of SEO (25:24) Using AI as a Writing Assistant (29:51) closing remarks Links: Alyss’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyssnoland/ Alyss’s Personal Website: https://dev.to/preciselyalyss Sponsored by: duckbillhq.com

People in this episode

Host: Corey Quinn

Guest: Alyss Noland

Topics covered

  • AI
  • software development
  • technology
  • cloud computing
  • human-AI interaction

Keywords

  • AI startups
  • Nvidia GPUs
  • production software
  • newsletter curation
  • chatbots

Sponsors

Duckbill

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nvidia, AWS

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