#129 Why are senior developers learning low-code and AI tools? [Adrian Twarog Interview]
The freeCodeCamp Podcast
Quincy Larson
5.0 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Adrian Twarog. He's a Software Engineer who started his career by working as the office IT guy at a school and other offices for 10 years. He's since published YouTube courses that millions of people have watched.
We talk about:
- How Adrian built his development skills by volunteering to taking on web design projects at work
- How he started making design tutorials on YouTube and published 300 in a single year
- How he was early to the AI engineering craze and published GPT tutorials with millions of views
– Adrian's many freeCodeCamp courses, and his gorgeous book on design fundamentals
- Being a dev in Perth, Australia – on the other side of the Earth from Silicon Valley – yet still staying at the forefront of the state of the art
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1995 industrial rock anthem.
Also, I want to thank the 9,771 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
- Adrian's popular video "Real life RPG to track your life": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMn9sxCWN0M
- Adrian's UX course on freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ui-ux-design-tutorial-from-zero-to-hero-with-wireframe-prototype-figma/
- Merge, Adrian's Discord community for devs: https://www.mergewebdev.com/
- Adrian's design book, Enhance UI: https://enhanceui.com/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We had like a brand new son in the world. I wasn't sleeping. We had a huge mortgage. There was so many |
| 0:05.5 | debts. It was a very, very stressful time. And I was just thinking like one day I have to tell my |
| 0:10.7 | son, like what do I do as a job? And I thought, well, I want to tell him that I followed my passions |
| 0:16.1 | and I did something I was really excited about. And so that's one of the reasons as well that I decided |
| 0:20.6 | to take the risk, well that I decided to |
| 0:20.8 | take the risk, leave what I knew for like 10 years of doing IT, and jump into web that I've never |
| 0:26.5 | done before. Welcome back to the Free Code Camp podcast. I'm Quincy Larson, teacher and founder of Freakogocamp.org. Each week we're bringing you insight from developers, |
| 0:55.2 | founders, and ambitious people getting into tech. And this week, we are talking with none other |
| 1:00.1 | than Adrian, Tuorog, developer, designer, and teacher of some of the most popular courses |
| 1:07.1 | on using low code tools, no code tools, AI tools. Again, he's a software engineer |
| 1:13.1 | who's gone out of his way to learn these new kind of like contemporary power tools and apply |
| 1:17.7 | them to get things done faster. And he's going to be able to share some insight into how he does |
| 1:21.6 | that. Adrian, welcome to the podcast. Hey, Quincy. Thanks for having me on. I'm really excited to do this because I'm working on some really cool stuff. |
| 1:30.6 | I can't wait to share it. But yeah, let's get into it. Yeah, man. Well, you and I have known each other since really like, I'm always proud of like scouting the talent as it's submerging. you know, like I saw very early on, like, wow, this guy, the production |
| 1:44.9 | value of his courses, the caliber of his teaching skills and his communication ability, |
| 1:49.2 | and just the charm of your courses, like really struck me. |
| 1:53.8 | And so we are proud to have published several of your courses over the years on the Freeco |
| 1:58.5 | Camp YouTube channel. |
| 1:59.5 | And I am proud to have learned |
| 2:01.2 | quite a bit from you, just like, you know, reading your articles and watching your videos and |
| 2:05.6 | stuff. So I wanted to take an opportunity. Yeah, I wanted to take an opportunity to learn a |
| 2:12.0 | little bit more about you and like your developer origin story. I know you have like a computer science degree and everything, |
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