My Coding Experience with an AI Assistant
AI is real and it is here. Its implications for knowledge workers will be enormous, including you. There is no escaping AI in our line of work. Therefore, while building the new version of Gitora PL/SQL Editor , I’ve fully embraced it. The last few months have been the most interesting, rewarding and productive period of my professional life. I’ve practically stopped using Google search and StackOverflow, two websites I’d consider essential to my work just a few months ago. I’ve coded the Gitora PL/SQL debugger virtually without reading a single line of documentation about how to build debuggers in Java or the specifics of how to build a Java debugger for PL/SQL. I am not even sure if there is any documentation available about building a PL/SQL debugger on the Internet. I just talked about these topics with ChatGPT and analyzed, used the code snippets it produced. All CSS and almost all of the run-of-the-mill code I needed to write for the debugger and the Gitora AI A...