In the videos below, Simon is building a Codota demo in Java. Codota is an AI programming assistant that is looking for solutions on GitHub and other global resources and suggests them in real time, recognizing your code. At the moment, it’s only available for Java and only for three editors (here – Eclipse), so the use is very limited, but their website says that other languages will follow soon. Since Simon normally uses Processing for Java, he can’t really use Codota for most of his projects. It has been an interesting exercise though (and I was surprised at how skillful he is at writing Java in Eclipse, which is quite different from Processing), and a glimpse into the future. There’s no doubt assistants such as Codota will very soon become a common companion. Simon had Codota resolve one error for him and was very happy about that. He said Codota was his friend. He was reluctant to turn its speech functions on, however. Simon has this slight fear of full blown AI and a fascination, wanting to learn how it works, at the same time.
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