Working with AI Coding Agents

And this is actually I think what AI is going to be really good at. Going through its knowledge base of what good code should look like. There was a tool that I saw at London Tech Week. Sorcery AI. There you go. So that does your pull request reviews for you and it's relatively good actually. Yeah, cuz like um cursor code can do this. You can tag cursor in your pull request and it will fix it. But there's a few kind of doing this where you just tag them in a pull request or you tag them in an issue. They'll go off and fix it in the pull request. And I I love that idea of just being on the bus and being like, "Oh crap, there's there's something I noticed an issue, report the issue, get the AI to start with it, and then you pull it down in cursor later on and fix the damn thing." I tell you when it's useful to use something like sorcery. So if you've got a relatively large team and you're doing the pull request at least then if you've got junior members of your team then they can sort of fight with the static analysis or in this case fight with sorcery until you've concocted a PR that is actually ready for review and has you know worked out all of the security bugs or worked out any of the other bugs that it's able to identify and gets to a certain bar before you then have a human or a you know senior code reviewer actually reviewing something and saying, "Yeah, that's ready to go." So, I think it's great in that respect. And this is actually, I think, what AI is going to be really good at. It's going to be good at going through its knowledge base of what good code should look like and determining whether there is um uh any issues, more like more of an advanced static analysis tool. And I must admit I use cursor regularly to review my PRs and say, "Right, is this ready to go? Do you notice anything in this? have you spotted any duplication that I might have left behind? You know, if especially if you're doing quite a large uh release, it's it's particularly useful for that. Also very unnerving because you've got to really trust in an AI when you're close to a release and you're saying, "Is there any issues with it?" Well, more if you're doing a small increment, a small feature. I'm not suggesting that you you code for 6 months and then ask the AI if that looks good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Are you using AI to to build that? Presumably it was built without AI, but are you are you kind of encouraging the guys to now use AI to add things and change things? Absolutely. Yeah. But I think you know we're a small team now. Um and we don't do a huge amount in AI actually. Sometimes we will prototype in it, but because of the level of what we're trying to achieve, we often don't use that much AI because we're trying to make sure that stuff is um particularly robust. So, you know, we're dealing with other people's data, I suppose, cuz in one respect, you could use us over Superbase. So you want to make sure that you've got some really strong security con constraints in there I suppose to make sure that everything is going to work exactly as you expect. But it's not to say we don't use it and like I said largely for prototyping and also you know there will be an actual AI tool in there further down the line because we've been experimenting with it already that where you will actually be able to build and design your data models by asking it to do that for you and it will do it for you. So is it is it live yet? Well, we're using it with a number of customers, but we're about ready to we're getting to the point next sort of month or so where we're going to be able to actually release that as a public um platform for other people to just start their own instances. I have a banner ready to go that says anything.com. Should I put the banner up or not? It's anything.uk. So, I would change the banner. Where's it gone? There we go. Add it. Show. There it is. Anything.uk. Is that it? That is right. Yeah. So, you can go and have a look at anything.uk. Um, we've got some cool stuff in there and there's going to be some a lot more to come. So, um, yeah, next couple of weeks I can come back if if you'll let me and uh I can tell you about it then when it's ready for people to just go and start their instances. This is part of a larger conversation on my show Command AI which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web. Catch us next week and join in the banter.