Conor Hoekstra demonstrates how to achieve exponential productivity by combining AI-assisted development, array programming, and high-performance computing. Using a financial dashboard app built entirely with AI (Vibe Coding), he showcases a custom array-based DSL with a dual backend (interpreted BQN and compiled NVIDIA Parrot for GPUs), urging developers to fully embrace modern tools and elevate their expectations of what is possible.
Andrew Browne demystifies F# Computation Expressions, showing how this powerful feature is a simple syntactic transformation. He demonstrates building custom expressions for handling optional values (maybe), asynchronous sequences, and even creating a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) with Free Monads for robust testing.
OpenSAFELY offers a new paradigm for medical research by bringing analysis code to sensitive patient data, rather than exporting the data itself. This interview explores its secure, privacy-preserving platform, its custom DSL `ehrql`, and how this model enforces reproducible, hypothesis-driven science while navigating the complexities of real-world clinical data.