This past week I spent some time trying to write a Discourse plugin using ask.discourse. I was amazed how I could describe the function of the plugin I wished to create and it spit out lots of tips and code snippets, some of which actually ran.
I’m a hobbyist programmer. Along side my Discourse instance I run another server with a MySQL database, a PHP backend and a Jquery/Javascript frontend but I am not a proffesional programer. Most the time when developing that site, I just feed plan old google what I want and it (Gemini I guess?) spits out code samples. Most run right out of the box and I am good enough at Javascript to figure why if they don’t.
I’ve used many programming languages over the years and in years past I spent hours reading, searching and experimenting to figure out thing that I now feed into google and finish in minutes what would take hours or days in the past.
I was amazed how well ask.discourse worked and eventually I got a plugin working and roughly doing what I wanted. With some styling (css) it could/may become a useable plugin. I’m intrigued with the possibility that an AI assisted service could streamline code creation