AI Assisted Development

Last night I was able to make a presentation to DH3 Labs about AI assisted development and Repl.it. It felt good to design the presentation and prepare a demo video. I haven’t used those skills in awhile. The group consisted of folks with deep technology backgrounds and it was nice to get different perspectives of how AI has been useful or not. One guy commented how he turned copilot off because he didn’t need the suggestions and it sort of slowed him down. I’m not there. I can use ever bit of help I can get.

Today I started working on my internet connection bot. I really struggled getting VSCode to use my 3.12.2 python environment with pandas. From the terminal I was able to pip install pandas and it confirmed the process correctly installed pandas but from within VSCode I could not activate it. I was only successful using pandas when I switched the python environment to the 3.12.3 which is listed out of the \appdata directory. It must be something to do with VSCode but I can’t figure it out. I even used Copilot in a focused troubleshooting session but only ended up going around in circles.

I’ll spend the rest of the afternoon on my code.