Becoming AI Native Without Losing Human Judgment With Fiverr
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Becoming AI Native Without Losing Human Judgment With Fiverr

B1IntermediateSeptember 6, 202624 min
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  • Technology

What does it take to move from giving employees AI tools to rebuilding how an organization gets work done? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Oren Levitzky, VP of R&D at Fiverr. Oren has spent ten years at the company, progressing from backend engineer through a series of leadership roles before taking responsibility for Fiverr's AI program. That experience gives him a valuable view of AI adoption from inside a global technology marketplace. He has watched engineering teams move from using ChatGPT as a conversational assistant to GitHub Copilot for...

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What changes when AI stops completing a line of code and starts carrying out much of the engineering workflow in an organisation? This is one of the many questions at the centre of today's episode. Because today I'm very fortunate to be joined by the VP of R&D at Fiverr.

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My guest has progressed from backend engineer to leading the company's AI programme during the last 10 years within the business. And today he will explain how Fiverr has moved from chat GPT and GitHub co-pilot to context-aware agents, and why the company reports development work becoming three to five times faster,

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and where human judgement must also remain in control. I will also discuss hiring interviews in which candidates build the AI, the risk of junior engineers producing work they cannot properly explain, and why education matters equally as much if not more so than the tooling itself.

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