Why You're Still Better Than AI at Editing Documents - CS50 Tech Talk

Hello world. Hello everybody. I hope everybody's doing well. Nice to digitally meet everybody. Um, it is truly such an honor for me to be here.

I absolutely love CS 50. I took this course myself a few years ago, um, it's quite a few years now, um, and it was so inspiring to me.

I, I can honestly tell you. But I still draw so much inspiration from this class every day at my work and.

So thank you, honestly for having me and thank you for being here. Um, a little bit above me. So today, I am the director of engineering at a company called Superdoc.

When I joined the company, we were building a contract management product. What does that mean? Think legal tech.

And when you want to manage contracts, You can imagine that the next thing you want to do is create them or edit them, right?

So, we needed a way to put something like Microsoft Words functionality, which I hope everybody's at least somewhat familiar with uh Microsoft Word, um, and put all of the functionality inside our own app.

And we thought This probably exists already, right? I mean, surely, but it didn't. Not a true DocX editor anyway.

Especially not one that we could extend and program or build on top of. And it had to be real Doc X.

Customers who are often lawyers, um, they needed to seamlessly move the Doc X files that they already have, Doc X files being the Microsoft Word files.

In and out of our app and then back to Word or to Google Docs, for example, which maybe some of you are more familiar with that one.

So, We built Superdoc and we made it open source, meaning that our source code is completely public.