Dreamweaver needs an upgrade.

[greg.eagel]

Dreamweaver doesn't currently live up to its name. But I have an unsolicited suggestion for that.

I'd like to have a chatbot that I could talk to built into the software. I'd like to be able to use ChatGPT and give it access to Adobe's code hinting and code completion features and open-source UI frameworks to create websites and apps conversationally.

[osgood_]

Well yeah, as l stated in a previous reply, if you don't give AI robots very specific instructions they are highly likely to produce a response less than required. The point being the quality of the response will be linked to the qualty of the information supplied...........so if you know little about coding or coding terminology it's probably going to be a bit hit and miss as to whether the response could prove any use to requirements.. 

[B i r n o u]

I am still surprised by the almost extreme extrapolation on the use of AI that this exchange takes. To tell the truth, when I asked the question, I didn't expect to engage in a debate on the complex advances Nick Bostrom is talking about, but I thought we were going to talk about our own experiments, or not, with such technology in our daily life as a developer.

For example, as far as I'm concerned, I admit I've always had trouble approaching functional programming, and getting help in its approach, on concrete cases, applicable and verifiable in real time, as I code, is something that brings me and helps me a lot.

An other case, during complex debugging, also, it helped me a lot, and by the same way I could improve my way of coding.

Concretely, questioning myself on certain acquired knowledge, allowed me to foresee multiple alternative approaches and thus to make my code evolve in a more relevant way towards a cleaner, more performing, more evolutive style...

In the same way, and as I said in the previous comment, implementing new npm addons may requires taking into account the literature on the subject... so, asking for a synthetic summary, with concrete examples and adapted to the context was a very precious help for me

Said differently, I use ESLint, it's great, while I type I can correct my code, there I can adapt my code on complete alternative ways

Well, it is more on this kind of debate that I thought to open this discussion

[osgood_]

The bottom line is, chatGTP and other AI concepts will only be helpful in terms of coding if you are familiar with coding terms, Example you have to know a window overlay is referred to as a 'modal' to get the best response. You have to have a reasonable knowledge of coding terms and coding to question if the responsive is written adequately or could it be better, it might even be wrong.

What lm saying is if you go into it blind then you're putting your faith in something you know nothing about. My concern is future developers will see it as a soft entry to pretend they are skilled exponents, just another crutch like the many frameworks and libraries already available, yet deep down a great percentage have zero idea other then deploying some components and classes. 

I view it as a second opinion to my own.  If you've ever used jet brains products they are already intelligent enough to suggest a more streamlined coding approach should the program think yours could be better. It doesn't always get it right, depending on what the personal requirement may be,  but it's there as a useful guide and should be just that, not something you don't question and to question you still need a great deal of knowledge to either accept the response or reject it.

[B i r n o u]

In fact, I understand your point of view, and I thank you for coming back to a more pragmatic debate.

However, I wish we could get even closer to concrete cases, targeting our own personal uses, and not take a general point of view in the absolute considering a new user who is a novice... and who would try to code for him

Really, let's talk about us, about our own experiences when using IA... and if we don't have any, or if we are against this kind of technology, it's not a big deal ;), no need to extrapolate 🙂

In the end, the objective of this debate, should allow those who are ready to test, to use, to explore... to find tracks and new ways of optimization

[osgood_]

In the end, the objective of this debate, should allow those who are ready to test, to use, to explore... to find tracks and new ways of optimization

By @B i r n o u

You already have dozens of YouTube channels who's creators have personal experience of ChatGPT. Jeff Way of Laracast has published one only a few days ago, which might be worth a look for those interested. I would consider him to be knowledgable when it comes to coding. I haven't watch it myself because lm put off by not being able to at least try it without exposing personal information to a company l wish not to.