The landscape of software development is ever-evolving with the advent of new technologies. As we venture into 2023, natural language processing (NLP) is rapidly emerging as a pivotal aspect of programming. Unlike previous generations of tools that primarily aimed at enhancing coding productivity and code quality, the new generation of Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools, like iQ, is set to revolutionize every facet of a developer's workflow. This encompasses a wide range of activities:
- Reading, writing, and rewriting specifications
- Designing, prototyping, and coding
- Reviewing, refactoring, and verifying software
- Going through the iterative cycle of deploying, debugging, and improving the software
- Create a draft schema and sample data for any use case
- Natural language queries.
- Generate sample queries on a given dataset
- Fix the syntax error for a query
- Don't stop here. Let your imagination fly.
Although the insights garnered from iQ are preliminary and should be treated as drafts, the spectrum of tasks one can accomplish with iQ is rich and varied.