How to Facilitate Effective AI Programming

What’s Happening

So basically How to ensure your coding agent has the same context as you The post How to Facilitate Effective AI Programming appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Programming with AI is an effective way of increasing coding speed. AI agents can handle a lot of the simple and repetitive tasks, while you can act as an orchestrator for your agents. (and honestly, same)

A problem I often encounter, but, is that I have more context in my head than an AI agent could ever have.

The Details

This could, for example, be: Business objective with a feature Technical discussions are happening orally in the office Meetings where we discussed different topics Historic knowledge The similarity between all of these is that this information typically isnt written down, and is definitely not available to your AI agent when implementing code. This infographic highlights the main contents of this article.

Ill discuss how a major challenge with todays coding agents is that they dont have access to the same context that humans have access to. Plus, Ill cover specific techniques I utilize to give my coding agents as much relevant context as possible.

Why This Matters

But, we all know that to be as effective a programmer as possible, you need extensive context. You need to know why a feature is being built to make the right decisions when implementing the code. The technical discussions in the office are important to understanding the codebase, and projects are often shaped in meetings.

As AI capabilities expand, we’re seeing more announcements like this reshape the industry.

Key Takeaways

• The question then is: How can we make AI have the same context as human programmers?
• In this article, Ill discuss how Im trying to facilitate my coding agent to be as efficient as possible.

The Bottom Line

In this article, Ill discuss how Im trying to facilitate my coding agent to be as efficient as possible. I believe a large part of this is simply to make sure the AI has access to the same information I have, and Ill discuss three specific techniques I use every day to make this happen.

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