Building with AI: How Twilio & AWS Are Shaping the Future of Development with Deepak Singh & Inbal Shani

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In this episode of Builders Wanted, we are joined by Deepak Singh, Vice President of Developer Agents and Experiences at AWS, and Inbal Shani, Chief Product Officer and Head of R&D at Twilio. They discuss what it means to build with AI, the evolution of developer tools, and how they are assisting customers in leveraging AI for customer engagement and innovation. The conversation covers the importance of curiosity, adaptability, and trust in this new era of AI-powered development. - Key Takeaways: Developers need to be curious and adaptable to thrive in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. Successful AI implementation relies on building trust, simplifying processes, and focusing on customer outcomes. Enabling experimentation while managing risk helps organizations fully leverage the potential of AI. - “It is very easy for a dev team or a product team to say, ah, this is the best way of doing something and we are going to follow this through wherever we want to. Instead of working with customers to understand, do you even care? I think with AI it's very important to take constraints away.

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