welcome
Thank you for purchasing the MEAP for A Quick Guide to Coding with AI. I’m very excited to share it with you. To get the most benefit from this book, you should have skills in software development, and familiarity with Python. It’s helpful to have participated in a software development project in the past. Even if you don’t know Python deeply, you can follow along in the project in this book. These principles can apply to many different languages.
I’ve been a software developer and had various roles in development, engineering, and administering servers and the cloud for over twenty years now. The first time I used ChatGPT I felt the way most of us did, like it was some kind of magic and clearly is going to change the world.
When I first saw “Generative AI tools for coding” I was immediately skeptical. It was the “code generation” part I had the hardest time with. I worked with IntelliSense for years, which I found incredibly useful. It’s not as much of a code generator as a code checker, and suggestion tool. I also worked with “code generators” over the years that were a waste of time. So immediately my mind went to the years of trying code generators that made bad code really fast. After using Tabnine (the first tool I tried) I quickly found out there’s a world of difference between these tools and the old “code generators” of the past.