Know what? This is something that the likes of Apple with their all tightened overview of the ecosystem can make a truly integrated experience. I can see a single text prompt touching so many apps… “make a 20 pages long power point presentation about all the notes in ‘Folder X’ starting with a summary table of contents. Also render all that with simple cross fade animations in Final Cut Pro. Leave the library open for validating later. While at it, set a time for 15mins I’m waiting for some water boil for tea”.
I’m currently lacking imagination, but hopefully you get the idea.
I’m mostly a C# programmer, but have managed to battle my way in Xcode thanks to CopilotForXcode, that while it isn’t as good as Jetbrain’s and VSCode integration of Copilot, it’s great enough to guide you.
I don’t want to bang my head from the first minute on how making a struct or class syntax works or even something as simple as a switch statement. This gives you the right syntax with a working example using the exact elements you were trying with.
This has happened many times on many domains. Every time I take the bus to get to work in a fraction of the time it would have taken me 200 years ago, I don’t feel at all like I’m cheating.
I’m currently lacking imagination, but hopefully you get the idea.
I wonder how useful this will actually be... from personal experience, I've found AI is good at generating small snippets of code for specific tasks, but I wouldn't rely on it for anything larger or more complex, at least not without a lot of human guidance. 🤔
But then, asking an AI to do small things sure beats having to look up how to call specific functions and classes on the Apple Developer documentation website. Can't remember how to use NSFileManager with iCloud? The AI will do it for you.
100% this. I’m floored by how good it is at guessing what comes next. And the larger the project the better it is at respecting code formatting and writing style/rules. Overall it’s something I would likely have looked for anyways: documentation on a specific function, how to use it or write it, common use cases, best practices, etc… this just does the same on a blink, then I just read.
I’m mostly a C# programmer, but have managed to battle my way in Xcode thanks to CopilotForXcode, that while it isn’t as good as Jetbrain’s and VSCode integration of Copilot, it’s great enough to guide you.
I don’t want to bang my head from the first minute on how making a struct or class syntax works or even something as simple as a switch statement. This gives you the right syntax with a working example using the exact elements you were trying with.
Maybe, but not a bad thing. Before we were “programming” nuts and bolts, then gears and belts and whatnot, then punch cards, then metal machine assembly language, then more natural programming language, then very high level programming/scripting languages, now getting closer to an even higher level natural language that writes the next language down the line…
This has happened many times on many domains. Every time I take the bus to get to work in a fraction of the time it would have taken me 200 years ago, I don’t feel at all like I’m cheating.
