I started a new p[roject, and asked Coilot to “Create a calculator app”
It said something like “Creating an app for a basic and scientific calculator”, and whirred away for a while, before showing me a basic calculator app layout.
It all looked fine - but there was no code associated with any of the controls.
Basically, it was the facade of a calculator app, not an actual app.
Hi Alex,
Thanks for this feedback. At present the AI is set up to work in stages. If you ask it to create a calculator it will create the layout. You then need to ask it to write script to make my calculator work. We have elected for a two step process at the moment to allow the user to refine the layout before adding code. Code is attached to objects and code generation is a pretty intensive task for the AI, so if you create a layout but don’t like the result and need to change the objects or object types, all that code was a waste of time. We will add something below the summary box after the layout is created that says Happy with this layout? Add scripts to make it work. The other thing to know is that it will only create one layout at a time, for the same reason. We are considering whether or not to change this way of working and are open to feedback.
We will follow with a full blog post on everything to know about the AI early next week. In the mean time, feel free to continue to post any feedback and questions here. Thank you.
Kind regards,
Kevin