[ekster]

For me the AI part of this is all the bad parts. What would really be cool is better search, templating, and best practices at your fingertips in the IDE.

Exact same problem to solve, because it is an important an interesting one, but a totally different approach. Maybe AI assisted somehow, but human curated.

Otherwise, imagine how bad legacy codebases of the future will be when they are full of autocomplete code that nobody understands or cared enough to think through even originally.

[bsenftner]

We should have AI tools to aid software engineers understanding of logic chains, and assorted visualizations like CAD, but for logic and the code creating that logic. And not UML nonsense, but some type of AI tool that begins where Doxygen ends and simply keeps going with various means of aiding the developer's understanding as they construct hierarchical logic systems.

[ekster]

Totally agree. Something that could interrogate and answer arbitrary questions about complex or new codebases would be incredible.

[vladiliescu]

I think we'll have smarter AI shifting through those legacy codebases of the future, not sure if that'll be a big problem.

The way I see this, GitHub Copilot and the like are true next-gen compilers, translating English into code. They'll only get better with time.