Comment by doug_durham
21 hours ago
I work in Python, Swift, and Objective-C. AI tools work great in all of these environment. It's not just limited to web development.
21 hours ago
I work in Python, Swift, and Objective-C. AI tools work great in all of these environment. It's not just limited to web development.
I suppose saying that I've only seen it in web development is a bit of an exaggeration. It would be more accurate to say that I haven't seen any examples of people using AI on a codebase that looks like on of the ones I work on. Clearly I am biased just lump all the types of coding I'm not interested in into "web development"
It's not about backend or frontend, it's mostly about languages. If you're using niche stuff or languages that don't have an online or digital presence, the LLMs will be confused. Stuff like assembler or low-level C aren't really in their vocabulary.
C#, Go, Python for example work perfectly well and you can kinda test the LLMs preference by asking them to write a program to solve a problem, but don't specify the language.