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![How to use AI as an accelerator, not a crutch, with freelance engineer Ankur Tyagi [Podcast #186]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ebarbEsoHzg/sddefault.jpg)
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
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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
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2025/08/29
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