Generative AI is here, along with the growing hype about software development tools and, most intriguing, code-writing tools. The landscape is changing, but hardly anyone can tell in what way exactly.

While some developers worship AI and its power to develop entire features on a whim, others notice compile-time errors, calls made to nonexistent APIs, and outright delusional implementations! What is going on?

Software development is more than writing down some code. In this talk, we shall try to evaluate the state of affairs as of the current date and to find a use for actual AI tools we do have available, not those coming from fairy tales.

Let it not be like writing the description above: Generated by an AI tool; proofread and improved by another AI tool; then written from scratch by a human.
And we didn't even touch on the process of specifying precise requirements...