To be honest, I haven’t read this yet, because I bouhght it only an hour or so ago. I thought I’d bring it to your attention because it is all about working with AI to create program code.

As an example, when I was working as an ICT advisor in a London borough, I created a Word document and template for writing lesson plans. It was all driven by Visual Basic for Applications. The idea was that you would enter the details into a form, selecting from drop-down menus for some items such as Year Group, then click Submit, and you would have a perfectly formatted lesson plan. I suppose it must have taken me a few hours to work out how to do it, and then create the necessary macros.

I just asked an AI app to write the code for me — all I did was describe what I wanted. It took about ten seconds. I haven’t tried it yet to see if it works, but creating the template and inserting the code would only take around 15 minutes I should think.

So thiis is what VIBE (Visual, Interactive, Bot-assisted Engineering) is all about I think: saving a hell of a lot of time.

Of course, if you like programming, as I do, it can be a bit of a disappointment: see AI gave me a sense of bereavement.

The reason I’ve mentioned this book even before reading it is that it is currently on sale, in Kindle format, for £0 and $0. So you might wish to “buy” it while it’s on offer. The offer might end today, or at least very soon.

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