AI, Automation & Hands-On Dev Learning at Code Remix – EcoTech Insights

Hi everyone. I'm at Code remix in Miami with the CEO of modern Jonathan Schneider. Jonathan, it's so great to have you on.

Thank You. It's a pleasure to be here. I'd love to hear some of the themes and why you decided to do it.

First of all, I want to see more developer conferences come to the United States. Really like high impact, deep technical where people get hands on and do things. A lot of conferences in Europe right now in that vein, but just not so many in the us And so I live in Miami right now and it was important to me to bring our first iteration to this conference here, kind of close to our home in Miami.

Moderna is really large scale automated refactoring of source code. And so, uh, we heard this morning from Dove Cast and Morgan Stanley that they have over 4 billion lines of source code under management. To try to keep that stuff up to date, to keep it modern.

To keep it secure requires just a ton of manual effort. Um, really kind of not fun work to do when you just have to keep kind of going back and cleaning house. So we're automating a lot of that work and, and really freeing developers to do the things that they wanna do, which is build that new stuff.

And how is AI coming into it? Tell me about your processes there. Sure, yeah, I think really we have a deterministic system that's gonna go and predictably make the same change over and over again.

But we have thousands of what we call recipes that make different kinds of changes and those are hard to discover and understand what's possible. And AI basically is patient to read through all the recipe descriptions and try to find the right ones and apply them. And once, once it's being applied, it's a deterministic output.

So really it's a, the best of both worlds. So tell me about the conference. You have people here that are from all over, it's global, right?

It is, absolutely. We have folks coming in from Europe, from the us, from Canada, Mexico. I've, these are the ones I've heard so far, but really, like you mentioned, developer focused.

We have three tracks, really a developer focused one, a leader track. And the thing that we're really trying out this year is something called a hack track, where we told attendees before they came, Hey, bring your work laptop, bring it with all your code on it. Get security to approve it in advance, almost like we called it, pack for the hack, get that approval before you come so that when you come here we can do work with you Too often I go to conferences and people bring personal laptops and then, you know, there's not much we can do with them while we're there.

So we'll see what kind of work we can get done. So what do you think is the biggest hottest topic in your space right now? A lot of people are questioning what is the role of a developer in the world way, you know, where AI's also, uh, working with them, how do I use that most effectively?

You know, there's a lot of fear I think right now. And so this is a great time for us to get together as a developer community here and, and talk through some of those things. And finally, you said your company, you're based in Miami or what, what are your goals for modern going forward?

Yeah, we're just continuing to grow. Just raised a, a $30 million series BA couple months ago. We've hired in go-to market functions, continue to hire in engineering, and, uh, just trying to make work closely with our customers and make, uh, them as successful as you possibly can.

Jonathan Schneider, CEO of Moderna, thank you so much for joining me. Thank you. Pleasure to be here.