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[EN] ByteSized RSE: AI assisted coding - with Liam (Jianliang) Gao

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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-Pilothttps://huggingface.co HuggingFace another AI toolhttps://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 engineeringhttps://www.promptingguide.aihttps://web.archive.org/web/20121022091418/http://www.stanford.edu/~learnest/spelling.pdf some of the attempts to come up with spelling checkshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_completionhttps://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ Good old Emacshttps://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 IDEhttps://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/ Stackoverflow survey from 2024 with ca 65000 respondents And here the YouTube clips mentionedhttps://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 computerGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:Email mailto:[email protected] RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/  (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile)This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence:  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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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-Pilothttps://huggingface.co HuggingFace another AI toolhttps://spacelift.io/blog/ai-coding-assistant-tools a summary of current tools (non exhausti...

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