Coming to Grips with AI in Software Dev - The Weighted Randoms Sample

Today I wrote the intro article for the Weighted Randoms project. You can find it here: Weight Randoms (elumenotion.com)

This article is to introduce the project and its elements. I am resisting the temptation to start commenting on the details of the process or my conclusions because this is a chapter, not the book. This is the first of several articles about the Weighted Randoms project. I hope you enjoy the series.

Project Elements

I made everything in this project with AI assistance. The assistants were:

• Bing AI
• ChatGPT (3.5 and 4)
• Github Copilot in Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio 2022

It demonstrates:

• Conceptual prototyping
• Generating user stories using AI
• Generating unit tests
• Improving the code quality with comments, exception handling, input validation and logging
• Visualizing output using Jupyter notebooks and Python
• Refactoring the results into a larger solution