You probably know that I’ve been playing around with writing apps with the AI tools for a while now. I’ve had some successes and lots of failures. Most of the AI tools work pretty much the same way so you can use whichever one you like. They all seem to favour using React as their Javascript framework. but that’s a PITA to use for a website because you have to install it on your server and most won’t allow you to do that. So, if you want to do tricky stuff on your web host, use Perl for the backend if you can’t get the AI to do it all with PHP and vanilla Javascript. You do not have to know or understand these languages to use them, the AI tools will tell you what you need to do to make it all work. Modularise your work, again the AI tools will help you here if you ask them to make the code in modules. Your web host or your operating system on your PC, tablet, or ‘phone wouldn’t work if the software wasn’t modularised. Try to keep the modules down to 200 lines or so. That’s not a hard rule, but I’ve found that once you get over 300 lines the AI gets pretty flaky. Keep your apps simple, preferably one solution to one problem. Project creep is the bane of programmers and it’s no different here. Get the core of your app working before you try to pretty it up. Form and function are more important than fluff. Regards, |
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