Code for Thought [EN] ByteSized RSE: AI assisted coding - with Liam (Jianliang) Gao
Mar 31, 2025
34:24
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://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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