Ashwin Mohanan
Ashwin is a training coordinator for Mimer (https://mimer-ai.eu/), the AI Factory located in Sweden, which is part of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking initiative. Ashwin has a background in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and during his Ph.D, he delved deep in to the ecosystem, by contributing to several active scientific Python projects such as FluidDyn, Transonic and Pythran. He has also participated as a speaker in PyCon Sweden and enjoys engaging with Python community through workshops, courses, conferences and meetups.
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Learning to code has seldom received the due attention it needs in the history of computing. From undergraduate students to the software engineers, programming is picked up either as a self-taught skill in their own time or, more effectively, by participating in bootcamps or workshops organized by volunteers, research software engineers (RSEs), librarians, and so on. Agentic coding is replacing or could potentially replace as the first choice tool in several programming tasks, and this combines LLMs with tools to ground it such as MCPs and tool-calling. This thought provoking talk, questions whether should we continue teaching programming as we do today or adapt it to today's reality.