Jan Marker

Join Jesper Pedersen from KDAB and special guest Jan Marker (October 2025), as they dive into the latest updates for the Qt AI Assistant in Qt Creator since their last recording in April.

In this episode Jan will show us a bit of the Qt Creator integration QodeAssist, and we will discuss the existence of tools like Cursor and Windsurf.

Jan demos the new agent mode in Visual Studio Code, exploring how it works in practice. He shows how it handles a real change request from Jesper, and discusses the overall takeaways from the experiment.

In this episode, we explore how Large Language Models (LLMs) work behind the scenes — from predicting the next word to powering tools like GitHub Copilot. Jesper introduces insights from his master’s thesis, Jan explains the core mechanics, and we discuss how agents extend LLMs beyond simple text generation.

In this episode, we explore how to host and run your own Ollama models on a dedicated server, from setup to integration. We discuss the difficulty of self-hosting, how Ollama works, its scalability, and the available model repository. You’ll also see a live demo, watch Jan interact directly with a model, and learn how to connect Qt Creator to your own hosted model.

When coding using AI, there are so many options to choose from, including just typing your questions into ChatGPT and using the model for continuous code completions and suggestions. However, the underlying issue is understanding what options are better - should you use a general purpose model or one specifically trained to your language? Should you host them locally, in server farms, or with the providers?

In this episode, Jan walks us through a normal setup of Qt AI Assistant for Qt Creator using ChatGPT's models.

In this mini-series, we investigate what the state of the art is for AI-assisted software development. We will start out with looking at Qt Creator, and the newly released Qt AI Assistant.

The "Locator" in Qt Creator offers an extensive set of commands that make programming easier. In this video we show a subset of its features, hidden behind the Ctrl+K shortcut.

Qt Creator provides a lot of useful features, many of which are easily accessible by keyboard shortcuts. This video demonstrates a few shortcuts around code navigation, editing and program execution.