#coding-assistant — Public Fediverse posts

Reports of #code's death are greatly exaggerated

https://stevekrouse.com/precision

#programming #coding #codingassistant #AI

In the world of AI and LLM every mistake, error or bug you run into is already a »classic«.

»You’re running into a classic ›columns depend on async data‹ vs ›columns must be stable for grid state‹ conflict.«

Okay, I feel less alone now, but this still doesn't help me solve the problem, haha.

#ai #llm #codingassistant #slop

So I don’t really want to hate on LLMs or generative AI in this post, but I am curious about alternatives to LLMs for code generation. What I particularly have in mind is how LLMs are pretty good at calling up code examples and fitting them into your code base.

Has anyone tried just creating a very large database with millions of code examples or code snippets, perhaps tagged with keywords pertaining to what the code does, and letting people search code by tag and automatically paste it into your file? If StackOverflow has been mined for LLM training data, can’t we just take that StackOverflow training data and parse-out the code snippets and generate such a database?

If LLMs coding tools like #Cursor, #Claude, #Copilot, Cody, etc. are basically doing that using statistical algorithms, couldn’t we do the same thing with ordinary symbolic computation and a clever little editor plug-in with good UI/UX design for the copy-pasting?

Does anyone know if such tools/databases already exist?

I’ll tag @screwlisp and @kentpitman on this one because I am especially curious about what you think about it.

#tech #software #AskFedi #CodingAssistant #LLM #AI #GenerativeAI

@regehr
🙏🏻 So true, so well said, so best practice: helpers should “never, ever touch the keyboard when they're helping a student with an assignment. not even once! because as soon as someone else is driving, it becomes real easy for the student to stop thinking and just let things happen.”

AND, the corollary or by extension:

“kind of like what happens when we use a coding assistant.”

#CodingAssistant #AI #teaching #students

People share the post by a senior #Google engineer that #GenAI produced a distributed system orchestrator as if that was surprising, or a sign of actual capabilities.

The #LLM training data includes many, many very well documented code bases for this type of project. Lots of user experiences. User and API documentation. Reviews. PRs. Patches. ADRs, KEPs, RFCs. Discussion forums, thoughts about alternatives, comparisons. The list goes on.

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#LLM #CodingAssistant #Claude #Gemini

#ZombieShooter #TaskManager #Kiro #KiroweenHackathon #Python #PyGame #psutil #DeveloperTools #VibeCoding #SteeringDocs #RAM #SystemAdmin #ProcessKiller #GameDev #AI #Programming #Coding #SoftwareDevelopment #Tech #Innovation #Frankenstein #Hackathon #Developer #Productivity #CodingTools #DevTools #ProgrammingTools #SoftwareEngineering #TechInnovation #AIAssistant #CodingAssistant #DeveloperExperience #CodingLife #TechLife #Software #AppDevelopment #ProgrammingLanguage #CodingSkills #TechSkills #

Gemini code just removed its own AI disclosure from my README.md :)

#codingassistant #selfaware

#SoftwareDevelopment in the Time of Strange New Angels

https://davegriffith.substack.com/p/software-development-in-the-time

#CodingAssistant

not gonna lie, I'm impressed. I just tried #CodingAssistant in #Xcode26 for the first time, asking it to generate #SwiftUI charts of sums by date and an average per day of week, all from an existing CoreData schema, and it pretty much just worked.