Hi all,
I don't have a specific project in mind, but I'm happy to throw my 20 (?) years of Moodle coding experience behind some of the ideas being explored.
One area of discussion I would be very interested in joining in with would be around LLM code generation tools.
I have been extremely suspicious of AI code generation - my brief experiments with local LLMs on a Mac have been very underwhelming (waiting several minutes for a half-baked solution that I could have written properly myself in not much more time). I've also been involved in code reviewing some small plugins made of AI generated code (initially a bit more impressive, but numerous issues discovered as I dug deeper).
I am very biased, because I love writing code and hate the idea of my job becoming a daily grind of reviewing reams of sub-standard AI-generated code, in the hope that it will eventually produce something more-or-less OK enough to not burn down the production server on day 1.
But other people seem convinced that LLM code generation is amazing and revolutionary - so I'm really wanting to hear what I'm missing.
I'm not wanting to start a discussion here - I do look forward to an in-person discussion when we're in Zurich.