AI Coding is WAY Faster
While some of the excitement around AI deals with using the technology within your FileMaker solution, it's likely that, as a developer, you should be more excited about how AI changes what you do as a developer.
In fact, it's theorized that the occupation of being a developer will be one of the careers most affected by AI. So, what do you do while we wait and see if this is truly the case? Well, you use AI, of course!
If you haven't yet dipped your toes into the world of using AI to compose some of the code you need, then make sure not to get left behind. You ABSOLUTELY need to investigate how AI changes how you develop. In my own personal experience, I've likely saved a ton of time by having AI write my code for me. The advantage of a developer who already knows code and can take advantage of AI is that they are better developers than those just starting out with no background in coding.
Yes, maybe AI results will eventually become nearly perfect, such that dictating a prompt to create a solution requires no existing knowledge of code. However, any existing knowledge makes you a better composing developer than someone with no knowledge at all.
Here's the trick: You need to know how to take advantage of the tools available, and this video is going to provide the introduction you need in order to make things much faster when coding your FileMaker solution.
Comments
Thank you
You did a great job of explaining the AI used in FileMaker. I'm going to give it a try.
Issues moving data between Cursor and FileMaker
Hi Matt,
I'm very excited about using AI within FileMaker. I've dabbled in it already. I've installed fmClips.
I'm having issues moving scripts back and forth. I can move buttons in both directions, and I can move script steps to Cursor, but I can't get them to go from Cursor to FileMaker.
Your preferred add-on software worked well for the video (and I may have to do something similar myself) but obscured the steps/fmClips you were using to move the script steps. I've tried just about all of them, and can't seem to get my Cursor result into FileMaker.
Can you give me a bit of guidance?
FM Paste
Hi there,
I'm trying to find the tool you recomended to being able to Copy/Paste plain text directly into FileMaker Script workspace? Do you have a link?
Best regards,
Bobby
Pasting from Cursor back to FileMaker
While pasting back into the Watch pane of the Data Viewer seems to work for the contents of a Let statement, pasting back to a script doesn't work. How do you do that? Does it need to be done as XML?
A followup - See FmClipTools on Github by Dan Shockley. - Mac only! Also, if you're using Visual Studio Code you should install the XMLTools extension.
Paul Davis
Ultra Golden Software LLC
Configuring NL Search to replace criteria with Primary Key
Wondering if you have any suggestions for AI prompting to replace search values with the corresponding Primary Key.
For example, I instruct AI to create a find request "Find contracts sold by Joe Cool in July 2024". Can the AI prompt be configured to insert Joe Cool's corresponding PK from the Employee table into the Contracts::fkEmployee field?
Would I have to capture PK|EmployeeName pairs and populate into the Prompt?
TIA