Practical techniques to accelerate software development using generative AI. Let's get real. You'd like to hand off a lot of tedious software development tasks to an assistant--and now you can! AI-powered coding tools like Copilot can accelerate research, design, code creation, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, refactoring and more. Coding with AI shows you how. Written for working developers, this book fast-tracks you to AI-powered productivity with bite-size projects, tested prompts, and techniques for getting the most out of AI. In Coding with AI you'll learn how to: - Incorporate AI tools into your development workflow
- Create pro-quality documentation and tests
- Debug and refactor software efficiently
- Create and organize reusable prompts Coding with AI takes you through several small Python projects with the help of AI tools, showing you exactly how to use AI to create and refine real software. This book skips the baby steps and goes straight to the techniques you'll use on the job, every day. You'll learn to sidestep AI inefficiencies like hallucination and identify the places where AI can save you the most time and effort. Unique tips, tricks, and prompt hacks ensure you're getting the best out of AI. About the book Coding with AI is a deep dive into AI coding tools, quickly getting you up to speed with effective code generation in a professional development environment. You'll benefit from author Jeremy Morgan's clear-eyed developer-to-developer approach based on his real-world experience of AI coding. Hands-on Python projects demonstrate how you can use AI to organize prompts, create documentation, debug your software, and more. About the reader For professional software developers. Examples in Python. About the author Jeremy Morgan is on a mission to help developers get better at what they do. He's a Senior Training Architect for KodeKloud and an avid tech blogger and speaker. He has two decades of experience as an engineer building software for everything from Fortune 100 companies to tiny startups. Jeremy hosts the popular tech blog, www.jeremymorgan.com. He also contributes to open source as a .NET Foundation Member, DevOps Institute Ambassador, and serves on a DevNetwork advisory board. Get a free eBook (PDF or ePub) from Manning as well as access to the online liveBook format (and its AI assistant that will answer your questions in any language) when you purchase the print book.