Last week, I kept up my pattern of going to random events that show up on my Eventbrite recommendation page. So I found myself at the Festive Founders Mingle and Jingle, which was hosted by Brisbane AI and included a talk by Dr Eban Escott, the founder of Codebots.

Codebots is an AI that, as the name suggests, writes code with the particular focus on "low-code".

From their website, "Codebots is on a mission to help humans team up with code-writing bots to plan, design, build and launch awesome software to the cloud. We are a Brisbane-based technology startup taking on the global giants in the billion dollars low-code industry. On the platform, 92.68% (on average) of the software’s code is written by a codebot and the remaining percentage is completed by a human. Collaborating with a codebot means quicker software delivery times, higher quality applications but most importantly, the team spends less time coding and more time creating."

Codebots is an interesting concept. I mean, Scala was developed to cut down on the number of lines of code you had to write in Java. Certainly, there is nothing fun about writing 90% of the codebase since it's pretty generic and bog standard. So this certainly has potential but it also begs the question if the recent focus on pushing students towards STEM is a good idea. The future of works is complex and codebots shows that AI will disrupt software engineering the same way it is disrupting every other industry.

For my part, I have signed up for the codebots beta. I hope I am selected because it sounds like a fun thing new skill to learn. Besides, AI co-workers do not smell.