No, AI can’t solve everything yet.

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3 min readNov 26, 2023

Not withstanding the drama going on at OpenAI at the moment, I have spoken to many people who seem to think that AI can do generate “any” code at present.

That is not necessarily true. It can generate code based on documentation and code samples available online. It can drum up some pretty “new” things combining documentation with code samples to seem as if the generated code is completely novel. But, I don’t think we have reached a stage yet where it can drum up something completely new, which is undocumented anywhere and without any code samples to learn on.

I have seen some examples of this myself.

So, how do we differentiate?

Well, our code generator does not generate code based on any code samples out there, or any open frameworks and APIs. The generated code refers to our internal APIs and Frameworks which are not openly available.

This also means that we can evolve our internal frameworks independent of the generated code. We can move forward without breaking the generated code, and we have actually moved forward like that in the past few months.

Happily, I have now figured out how to implement Generative AI within our product beyond it just being a help or customer service bot. It took a while, but we have a good idea about it currently. We can use…

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