Mind Readings: Solving Real World Problems with Generative AI and Code, Part 2

Welcome back. In this part, and the second part in this series of taking a problem that my martial arts teacher has, namely, uh he wants to synchronize his substack with his WordPress blog. Um, we're gonna do the build. In the first part, we thought through the problem, we built some requirements, and then we built out a work plan for a developer to follow. Now, the developer can be a human, it can be a machine.

We're gonna have it be a machine, uh, but it could just as easily be a human. So here's how we're gonna do this. Let's go ahead and turn on sharing. We are going to start off by figuring out how we're gonna build this thing. So let's start a new code folder here.

We'll call this Substack. We're gonna call it Substack WP Sync. And now we're gonna create a folder called docs. The documents folder is where we're gonna put our various pieces because we don't want to just um YOLO it, right? We want to have an work plan.

Those are the two uh really basic uh documents that we need. We also need we also need something along the lines of a ideally something like a best practices um worksheet. Um let's go set one up. So because I don't well, do I want to have a coding tool wing it? Or do I feel like that would be okay as long as I specify the version?

Um let's start a coding agent. And the coding agent we'll use today is we will use let's use Google's Gemini. So here comes the Gemini agent, and we're gonna start off by saying today. We're gonna build a WordPress plugin. Follow uh say read the product requirements document in the PRD and then execute the work plan in work plan.

The target is a that. The target is a WordPress site running WordPress 6.8.2 using PHP 8.3. Execute the work plan fully following WordPress development best practices. And let's see if we can get Gemini to start by building out this thing. All right, it says it's done.

So let's go and check out to see if it in fact did create this. Let's go up one level. Oh, there's a new version of Gemini. Okay. All right.

So we've got our WordPress plugin called Substack Sync. Now we're need to do a couple of QA checks. Um we should probably add support for what is it? PHP CSLint. What are the names of the different WordPress plugins that uh plug in coding tools?

Check to see if the following automated testing tools for PHP are installed. And it is PHP CSFixer, PHP Stan Psalm, and PHP unit. Yes, install them. Now, what we're doing here is we've got four different tools. These four different tools are functionally um a syntax validator or um a linter, a typing validator, a security checker, and a unit testing suite.

And in general, when it comes to writing and developing code, you want to have tools like these always available to you so that you don't have to manually test your software as much. They can spot things like obvious syntax errors. They can spot things like blatant security holes that you've left. And if you're going to be built building any kind of software, these are the kinds of considerations that you need to keep in mind as you're creating stuff. So uh it looks like it is working on installing these tools for me.

Okay, it looks like they have been installed. So we can say, now let's go ahead and audit our plugin, Substack Sync, using run these automated testing tools and gather their feedback, then implement any recommended changes. So it has come to a grinding halt, and that's okay because I exceeded my daily quota of what is allowed. So let's go ahead and just do a little bit of cleanup in here, make sure that we have our documents all set, and we will switch to Anthropic Splod. Now in my Claude environment, I have a lot more tools available.

So I'm gonna say read at docs to understand our project, then set up our automated testing tools. If you need a clean WordPress install to run testing, go ahead and download and install that as well. Feel free to set up a git repository for version control. So we're starting off by telling Claude, hey, read the documentation to understand what it is that we're doing. Then go ahead and start getting yourself organized so that you can do the testing for our system.

All right, Claude says that our development is done and that we've run testing and it has tested clean. So what we've done so far is build out take a problem, a real world problem that needs a solution. We have built out requirements, we've built out a work plan. We've then handed the work plan to a generative AI agent to implement the work plan. We've implemented the work plan.

We have now tested using the best unit testing software that we have available to us, the basic uh tests to ensure that it's working. And according to Claude, which finished up the implementation, it says it's ready to go. Uh so in the next uh in the next section of this project, we're gonna install it. We're gonna install it and see how it goes. So stay tuned for that.

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