No, they’re not gonna do it ALL for you (yet)
As I was going through my backlog of started-but-never-completed apps this year, I found myself thinking more and more about where things stand in the coding world today.
To plug some shameless self-promotion (I’m trying to give my career a new direction) — there’s web and App Store stuff live right now, and Android ports are coming as soon as I get something to test them on. Follow this link to check them all out and see what else I’ve been up to: https://11000ad.com/portfolio/
But that’s not what I wanted to croon about… As I dig deeper into how coding is done today and update my old-school mindset, I’m really starting to appreciate what the latest advancements in AI coding assistants have brought to the table.
I can tell you from a before-and-after perspective — coding is definitely not what it used to be. It’s so much better!
VS Code and Continue, or any other combination of tools, honestly feel like something out of Star Trek when Geordi or Scotty would basically just explain what they wanted, maybe write a line or two of theory or a specific query, and then AI coding assistants would handle the rest. They rewrite and optimize the code so it runs faster and smarter — there’s been a lot of forehead-slapping on my part lately.
I mean, I got most of my computer science education in the ’90s, and later picked up the rest online as needed, but half of it doesn’t even matter anymore, made obsolete in just the last three or four years. It’s the next Industrial Revolution, no doubt.
Sure, you need to know what you’re doing and how to organize your code, but if you approach it for what it is — an optimization and learning tool — the sky’s the limit for what you can accomplish!
What a time to be alive for a lifelong Trekkie! Live long and prosper! 🖖🏼
