How to use AI as an accelerator, not a crutch, with freelance engineer Ankur Tyagi [Podcast #186]

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For this week's interview, I'm talking with Ankur Tyagi. He's a software engineer who's worked at multinational companies like Volvo, Barclays, and Accenture. He grew up in Pune, India and now lives in Gothenburg, Sweden. Ankur is a prolific contributor to freeCodeCamp's open source learning resources. He also runs DevTools Academy, where he blogs about emerging developer tools. He shares tips for: - How he uses AI tools to get more done as a dev but... - He thinks leveraging AI is a skill any dev can learn, and we shouldn't worry about fewer dev jobs. - How to run you own developer consultancy - How writing programming tutorials can help you become a better engineer Support for this podcast comes from a grant from Wix Studio. Wix Studio provides developers tools to rapidly build websites with everything out-of-the-box, then extend, replace, and break boundaries with code. Learn more at Support also comes from the 10,889 kind folks who support freeCodeCamp through a monthly donation. Join these kind folks and help our mission by going to News items: → freeCodeCamp launched its first chess course, taught by a software engineer with an international ELO rating of 2285. The beginner-level course covers strategic thinking, checkmate patterns, and includes a handbook and YouTube course. → freeCodeCamp also released a comprehensive course on building an AI shopping agent. Software Engineer Ania Kubów teaches how to use Node, TypeScript, LangChain's LangGraph, Gemini, Mongo