Buzzword Bingo (or: which modern technologies make sense for embedded?)

Engineering & simulationChatGPT

The speaker uses ChatGPT to generate code skeletons and iteratively refine functions, significantly speeding up the coding process compared to writing from scratch.

“you can say, give me a skeleton for this, and then you can get into a really nice iterative loop where you say, okay, that was nice, but do it more in this style, or change this function to have, accept function pointers for this. And you can very quickly bang out code that would have taken you quite a lot of writing…”

Engineering & simulation

The speaker used an LLM to convert tests from one framework to another and received recommendations for refactoring the code into a data-driven style.

“I asked, and L&M, not even ChatGPT, something else, to convert tests from one testing framework to another testing framework for me. And not only did it do that, but it also recommended refractoring, it said, you should really do this in a data driven style.”

Engineering & simulationChatGPT

The speaker uses ChatGPT to learn C++ features by incrementally converting C code to different C++ standards through iterative prompts.

“you can say, okay, I've got this. I've got this C code, convert it to C ++11. And just, you don't use it blindly, but you use it to learn, okay, what are the features in C ++11 that, that, you know, and you can, again, go back and forth with it…”

Engineering & simulationMicrosoft Copilot

The speaker mentions Microsoft Copilot as a significant AI coding tool used by developers, though he admits he hasn't used it extensively himself.

“Microsoft Copilot is a big one. I haven't, I'm not the expert. I haven't used all of these tools. I just used, basically, chat GPT and clawed, but again, listeners, this is one where we really want to hear from listeners as to what tools you've used…”