Beyond the Hype: What AI Actually Can (and Can't) Do • Jodie Burchell & Michelle Frost • GOTO 2026

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Jodie Burchell - Senior Data Science Developer Advocate at JetBrains @jodieburchell
Michelle Frost - AI Advocate at JetBrains

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https://gotopia.tech/articles/431

RESOURCES
Jodie
https://bsky.app/profile/t-redactyl.bsky.social
https://fosstodon.org/@t_redactyl
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodieburchell
https://github.com/t-redactyl
https://t-redactyl.io

Michelle
https://bsky.app/profile/aiwithmichelle.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-frost-dev
https://aiwithmichelle.com

Links
https://www.youtube.com/@Asianometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547
https://softwareengineeringproductivity.stanford.edu
https://youtu.be/XShcmCBK93E
https://youtu.be/fVsGd056FDM
https://youtu.be/Pv0cfsastFs
https://youtu.be/Cn-ZWJEs59k
https://youtu.be/DeEkA9cunB4
https://youtu.be/JD3yNaWs70A
https://youtu.be/o8I0M5vjdyE
https://youtu.be/ZPlD0rpiFwQ
https://youtu.be/BByWWTdNI0Y
https://youtu.be/rxdvRV5oFPU
https://youtu.be/ZTfnRXtIFEo
https://youtu.be/M0exasJQ1ks
https://youtu.be/x5s_gsu9Hgs
https://youtu.be/b_--xrN3eso
https://youtu.be/tbDDYKRFjhk
https://youtu.be/Qhm-vXEM5Ls

DESCRIPTION
Michelle Frost and Jodie Burchell - both developer advocates at JetBrains — sit down for a candid, wide-ranging conversation about the state of AI. Drawing on Jodie's unusual path from clinical psychology to biostatistics to NLP, and Michelle's background in machine learning fairness and AI ethics consulting, the two offer a measured, research-grounded perspective on generative AI's real capabilities and limitations. They trace historical parallels between today's AI boom and earlier 'AI summers,' unpack the contested definitions of AI and AGI, make the case for why foundational machine learning knowledge still matters, and examine what the evidence actually says about AI's impact on developer productivity.

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
00:28 From clinical psychology to data science
04:39 Defining AI— and why it matters
15:13 Patterns of the AI bubble: History repeating itself
17:59 AGI: Hype, Hope, and the Measurement Problem
24:01 Developer productivity: What the research shows
28:37 Outro

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Mark Coeckelbergh • AI Ethics • https://amzn.to/3SuXUbY
Debbie Sue Jancis • AI Ethics • https://amzn.to/44yuEbR
Alex Castrounis • AI for People and Business • https://amzn.to/3NYKKTo
Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ

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