AI and LLMs

Originally I wanted to write a blogpost about what data engineers are going to do with AI writing their code. But before I can write that, I need to share my experiences so far. Because from this you’ll get an idea where they work and where they lack.

This is not meant as a treatise of AI coding assistants and agentic AI tools. But here are some of the tools I’ve tried:

• I’ve worked with VSCode and Copilot now for at least a year.
• I regularly use ChatGPT and Phind.com for advice on programming tasks.
• I’ve used VSCode with Cline / Roo Code extensions and LLM models.
• And I’ve used Claude Code (which is not free, but there seems to be a trial amount of free tokens). Claude Code works from the command line.

The agentic AI solutions are interesting. They are quite capable to create whole Python projects based on your requests. But it doesn’t mean these projects will work right out of the box. Usually there needs to be some tweaking and restarting and checking results.

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