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Quick Poll: Are Chatbots Helping Develop Software?

April 24, 2023

Chatbots and AI/ML software is flooding not only the general markets, but software-development arenas as well.

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Lots of chatbots and artificial-intelligence/machine-learning (AI/ML)-based tools are coming on the market in general as well as in the software-development field. These days, you become an alpha tester or possible beta tester for the platforms that are often initially rolled out for free before turning into money-making projects.

Chatbots are being tapped to perform a range of chores related to software development, from creating programs from scratch given a description of the problem, to doing static analysis on an existing program. The search aspects are utilized to find related programs or routines.

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