Thank you for the responses. I would use it like I currently use ChatGPT, which is to quickly give me small functions that I can edit to get exactly what I want, instead of spending the time to do it myself from scratch. It saves minutes every time I use it and overall, it ends up saving me hours. If it was integrated into NetBeans then I envision it taking even less time, but I know that I would still have to edit it to get exactly what I need. It could also potentially help in debugging or searching for through my projects to get what I have already written before and use it in the current project. Again, I understand that I would need to tweak it for my situation.
Hopefully soon we can have this capability in NetBeans, instead of me having to start using another IDE just for this functionality. I have been using NetBeans for over 20 years and I love it and would like to continue using it. From: Andreas Reichel <andr...@manticore-projects.com> Sent: Friday, February 9, 2024 7:46 PM To: users@netbeans.apache.org Subject: Re: Re: AI assistant for NetBeans On Sat, 2024-02-10 at 12:17 +1000, Peter Kirkham wrote: Maybe I'm wrong and I'm just a modern-day Luddite. No, you are not. It CAN be extremely useful WHEN you know exactly what you want and are an expert in your topic. THEN you can use the AI generated template and quickly tweak it until it works. Like a secretary. This is great when you don't know the API or programming language. For example, this dynamic TOC side bar was done by ChatGPT within 30 iterations: https://manticore-projects.com/JSQLFormatter/javadoc.html -- it was great because I don't write JavaScript code or Website stuff. But when you don't know the solution and can't validate the outcome, then stay away from AI. My former example "RGBA ByteSwapping" brought up useful AVX/SSE methods, but filled the bytes completely wrong -- and kept filling it wrongly continuously. This is worse than "phantom libraries", which don't exist because it appears to be working but produces wrong, potentially dangerous results. Its a tool, SELECTIVELY useful for the right purpose and harmful otherwise. Smart people will become smarter and faster using it. Others won't. Cheers Andreas -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com
