RE: How has/will AI impacted the RPGLE community?

You are spot on not replacing developers. We use AI heavily in our development, especially our Node.js based products, which LLMs understand very well.

AI isn't ready to autogenerate code for an entire application, yet.

What it does do really well is:
- Write specific block of code or functions, thus cutting down on grunt work
- Finding bugs in existing code
- Generating test cases and the code to run them

So, we aren't replacing any developers. Our developers are becoming more efficient and we are innovating faster than ever before.

Brian May
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Did you have it do anything worthwhile? Like "given these inventory files, write a recursive bill of materials program that prints to a PDF for a given item"?

AI is yesterday's "cloud" which was yesterday's "client-server", etc..
etc... It has its uses but it won't replace REAL programmers. It will only replace "coders".

On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 2:28 PM <tgarvey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello, everyone,



Just attended the IBM AI Strategy and Update webinar and thought I
might stimulate some discussion.



Seems like a year ago or so when I attended a webinar of a software
vendor who introduced how they were integrating AI into their product.
The demonstration included use of ChatGPT (I think) in which the tool
was told that it understood RPGLE code and a request was made of the
tool to write an RPGLE procedure to perform some minimal mathematic
function. It responded with a clean RPGLE procedure to do that, and it
was compiled and tested. Then the RPGLE source was modified to be
incorrect and the tool was asked to verify the function source code
was correct. The tool found the mistake and pointed out the source code error and suggested a correction.

I was impressed.



Now I'm wondering if ChatGPT has been improved enough to do something like:

Given source code for a simple RPGLE green screen entry panel, convert
that code to Visual Basic.



It's exciting to see the direction IBM is going, based on today's
webinar, but I'm wondering how we might be eventually impacted by
these developments?



Any thoughts, opinions? Anybody seen ChatGPT convert RPGLE to VB?



Kind Regards,



Thomas Garvey



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