Birgitta Böckeler: Exploring Generative AI

Exploring Generative AI

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai.html

Previously, developers could rely on Copilot for minor assistance, such as generating a few lines of code within a single method. Now, the tool can tackle larger tasks, simultaneously editing multiple files and implementing several steps of a larger plan. This represents a step change for coding assistance workflows.

Birgitta Böckeler

On Martin Fowler's website.

I've also been exploring GenAI in code editors lately. It started with Amazon Q Developer (previously Code Whisperer) and more recently GitHub Copilot, and also the AI capabilities of on the command line within Warp.

But to be honest, I've had the most success so far using Claude in the browser. I'm not sure why, but I find that separating what's going on in my code editor from the sketchbook/chat nature of Claude in the browser is quite nice.