Audrey Roy Greenfeld
Audrey sees repetitive developer work and builds tools to eliminate it. Her project templating tool Cookiecutter saves developers countless hours—downloaded over 5 million times monthly with 24k GitHub stars. She is best known for co-authoring Two Scoops of Django, and is also a prolific fantasy and sci-fi fiction writer. She is a core developer of Air, the new AI-first Python web framework. As PyLadies' first president and cofounder in 2011, she built the organization from scratch—handcrafting the first website to the logo to the chapter kit that helped launch a global movement. MIT-trained engineer, Two Scoops co-author, and devoted mother to Uma, who keeps her grounded between building the next generation of developer tools.
Session
Air is a Python web framework built from scratch for AI-assisted development. We'll show how designing for LLM legibility makes you a better coder whether or not you use AI. This includes explicit types, clear contracts, documentation that reads like a book. The goal is a framework that works astoundingly well with commercial or open source LLMs, or even the introspection features of your LLM. While Air is being architected by the speakers of this talk, a lot of the Air codebase is collaboratively being developed at sprints in the Python Asia community, starting in Davao, Baguio, and Manila but soon growing to Singapore and beyond.