> AI tools will allow the best to reach even greater heights, while enabling smaller teams to accomplish more, and bring in some completely new creator demographics.
No need to brag about that.
Like what? If you can already program your game and create art for it, what is it going to be doing?
People are so obsessed with using AI stuff for the sake of it, it’s nuts
1. advanced autocomplete -- if you have or paste the structure of a JSON or other format, or a class fields, it is good at autocompleting things like serialization, case statements, or other repetitive/boilerplate code;
2. questions -- it can often be difficult to find an answer on Google/etc. (esp. if you don't know exactly what you are looking for, or if Google decides to ignore a key term such as the programming language), but can be better via an AI.
Like all tools, you need to read, check, and verify its output.
JetBrains also has local line-based LLM models for various languages.
With the LLM-based autocomplete it a) generally autocompletes more code at once, and b) will often pick up on patterns in the existing code. E.g. if you have a similar method, list of print/string buffer write statements, or other repetitive code in the file it will often use that as a model for the generated code.
I guess they might finally get me to use those things since they take the “configuring” and “remembering shortcuts” part out, but so much of this doesn’t look new at all. Super old, actually.
If I have a JSON structure, I can paste that into the file as a comment, e.g.:
# {"foo": 1, "bar": "test", "baz"}
@dataclass
class FooBar:
foo:
@dataclass
class FooBar:
foo: int
bar: str
baz: int
def __str__(self):
return f'Foo(foo={self.foo}, bar={self.bar}, baz={self.baz})'
class Foo(Base):
__tablename__ = 'foos'
bar_id: Mapped[int | None] = mapped_column(ForeignKey('bars.id'), default=None)
bar: Mapped[Optional['Bar']] = relationship()
With ai it add several lines of code at once as soon as it thinks it recognizes a common pattern.
It’s not perfect and it can get in the way but it’s amazing when it guesses right and spits out the next 3-4 lines I would have typed
Does the calculator give you a slightly different answer each time, even with the same inputs?
But at the moment it's also helping me solve more complex issues with building applications - it's JS, so you can imagine how complex it can be.
I yearn for a simpler workflow to be honest, I don't want to rely on SO or LLMs to solve build issues. I want to work in Go but there's only a handful of companies using it in my country, plus my CV basically says I mainly did front-end in the past ~15 years.
This is a GREAT observation. Thank you!