SAP jumps on AI-assisted coding wagon, but uses its own ABAP language

SAP is the latest to bring a set of AI-assisted coding features to its cloud-based application development environments, joining a slew of vendors making similar announcements. However, developers and analysts say they're concerned the same tech is not be available for on-prem systems they are working on migrating and lifting to …

[OhForF']

Citizen/Professional developer

>"This makes collaboration between citizen developers and professional developers very easy. We are infusing generative AI capabilities to increase developer productivity,"<

Do i understand this right, a "citizen developer" has some fancy idea and uses AI to come up with something close to what he wants to happen. Then the result is handed to the professional developer whose job it is to reverse engineer the mess to guess what it should have done and come up with a sane and clean implementation?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Citizen/Professional developer

"Do i understand this right, a "citizen developer" has some fancy idea and uses AI to come up with something close to what he wants to happen. Then the result is handed to the professional developer whose job it is to reverse engineer the mess to guess what it should have done and come up with a sane and clean implementation?"

Answer:

Yes ...... BUT ...... not as simple or well thought out as your definition ..... :)

[Soapbox Mode On]

When are people going to realise that adding *so called* AI to everything will not improve anything !!!

The AI will simply(!!!???) confound and confuse the 'real needs' into what an AI *guesses* you need and then take a random stab at producing the solution to 'its' definition of what is needed.

It is the 'Send three & four pence we are going to a dance' problem applied to software production.

[Soapbox Mode off]

:)