English Edition: In this last episode for the ByteSized RSE "miniseries" we talk about AI assisted coding - and the (long) history how engineers tried to come up with assisting tools to make our code better and more robust. My guest is Liam Gao from Imperial College, London, UK.

Links:

https://github.com/features/copilot GitHub Co-Pilot
https://huggingface.co HuggingFace another AI tool
https://spacelift.io/blog/ai-coding-assistant-tools a summary of current tools (non exhaustive)
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering OpenAI's take on prompt engineering
- https://www.promptingguide.ai
https://web.archive.org/web/20121022091418/http://www.stanford.edu/~learnest/spelling.pdf some of the attempts to come up with spelling checks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_completion
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ Good old Emacs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi_(text_editor) vi editor (not for the faint hearted)
https://winworldpc.com/product/turbo-pascal/7x Borland's Turbo Pascal with IDE
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/ Stackoverflow survey from 2024 with ca 65000 respondents

And here the YouTube clips mentioned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvEXkd3O2ow Cypher musing why he didn't take the "blue pill"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0mRMp2kbQY Star Trek TNG, S3E6 - Geordie LaForge talking to the computer

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