Building Jam

Devs React to Copilot Code Review

Today we’re sharing our first impressions of GitHub’s Copilot code review! Oskar and Tomasz are both senior devs on the Jam team, and share what we’ve found while building with it these past weeks. Let’s get into it! 0:00 Intro 1:46 A real example from our codebase 3:13 Oskar & Tomasz share why the feature is valuable for them 5:03 Why Copilot’s ability to catch every typo is actually a big deal 6:52 Besides naming variables & catching typos, where is Copilot Code Review useful? Real Jam example w/ permissions! 8:08 Imagining what’s possible for Copilot w/ Jam Subscribe to Building Jam on YouTube [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtQrebgNo7dIJOLpiiqAg-LUL2QJA-f6W&si=mkIOschbqfWqiItl], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/7s55TAjknbXw9zOROGSsmQ], and Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/building-jam/id1743414087].

How We Use Playwright for Automated Testing!

Today we’re diving deep into our first automated testing suite with Playwright! There’s 180k+ people Jamming in 75+ countries, which is so awesome! But it also brings up a variety of web compatibility edge cases that can be tricky to identify with manual QA testing. So to keep shipping fast, we’re making our automated testing more robust. Today, Jam Eng, Aidan, is sharing all the details with you all! On today’s episode: (00:00) Intro (00:25) Why we added automated testing on top of manual QA (02:10) Walkthrough of Jam’s Playwright testing suite (03:27) The biggest challenge of setting up our tests (05:04) Demo of our fetch requests testing page (10:37) How the new testing suite fits into our dev cycles Subscribe to Building Jam on YouTube [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtQrebgNo7dIJOLpiiqAg-LUL2QJA-f6W&si=mkIOschbqfWqiItl], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/7s55TAjknbXw9zOROGSsmQ], and Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/building-jam/id1743414087]. New episodes drop every other Friday at 10AM ET. See you there! Join 175k+ happy users at https://jam.dev/ [https://jam.dev/] for 1-click bug reports that engineers love.

How We Use Figma At Our Startup! w/ Product Designer

In this episode, we’re sharing behind the scenes of how we use Figma at Jam! Our designer Martin gets into the details behind how we organize Figma files, handle developer handoffs, and build out our files over the course of the product development lifecycle. Ready to see our Figma? Let’s go! (00:00) Intro (00:38) Real questions from Twitter & Reddit about Figma organization (01:52) Making Figma files part of the design process (we like double diamond!) (05:05) Page hierarchy: collaboration, discovery, exploration, review & development (07:06) What should be a new file vs. a page? (14:07) Figma playgrounds, drafts & tips for exploration (15:50) How to organize & document your files for design reviews with developers (23:27) Figma tour of our settings page & steps we take for design + dev alignment Subscribe to Building Jam on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. New episodes drop every other Friday at 10AM ET. See you there!

How We Built AI Bug Reports (Here’s the story)

We just launched AI that writes your bug reports and today, we’re sharing the story with the team that built it! We’ll get into why we use Smaller Language Models instead of the larger LLMs, moved to an opt-in user experience, and all the user feedback that shaped what the feature is today. Let's get into it!   (00:00) Intro (01:14) Why we changed the UX from opt-out to opt-in (02:35) How early access helped us fine-tune AI (not everything people Jam is a bug!) (03:53) Setting our quality bar to ship AI & how to measure it (06:02) Our biggest early access breakthroughs: auto-generated repro steps & short titles (08:55) Decisions we made to prioritize AI speed & accuracy (12:15) The story of how Jam AI was engineered from a van, Greece & sunny beaches Check out Jam AI at: https://jam.dev/ai [https://jam.dev/ai] Subscribe to Building Jam on YouTube [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtQrebgNo7dIJOLpiiqAg-LUL2QJA-f6W&si=mkIOschbqfWqiItl], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/7s55TAjknbXw9zOROGSsmQ], and Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/building-jam/id1743414087]. New episodes drop every Friday at 10AM ET. See you there!

Our Startup’s AI Design Graveyard

We just launched AI that writes bug reports for you! It’s our biggest launch yet, and we’re really excited to show you all behind the scenes of designing AI. We spent 4 months iterating, testing feedback mechanisms and how to deal with AI latency, while making it still feel like Jam. So today, we’re sharing all of the UX that didn’t make the cut. Ready to see our design graveyard? Let’s go! (0:00) Intro (1:07) Demoing Jam AI (2:58) Initial Concept Storyboards (8:44) AI-Generated Titles (11:04) Opt-in vs. Opt-out (12:09) Getting feedback (16:09) Summarizing States & Animation Concepts (21:29) The Final Animation (23:47) Reproduction steps Subscribe to Building Jam on YouTube [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtQrebgNo7dIJOLpiiqAg-LUL2QJA-f6W&si=mkIOschbqfWqiItl], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/7s55TAjknbXw9zOROGSsmQ], and Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/building-jam/id1743414087].  New episodes drop every other Friday at 10AM ET. See you there!