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Web-D-Zine and AI

Web-D-Zine and AI

Just of late, artificial intelligence(AI) has been in the news which led to the question, is Web-D-Zine(WDZ) an AI, so we decided to answer this and other questions about WDZ

Can I sack all my programmers?

Yes, but we don't recommend it. Although WDZ produces the bulk of the code required for a back end system, there will always be fine tuning to be done. Look at Press the Go WDZ Button and there are clearly gaps, gaps that will need to be coded by programmers. Then there is the most important aspect of a project and that is what the customer sees, the front end. WDZ produces back end code, not customer facing code.

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Is WDZ an AI?

The simple answer to this is No. WDZ is a deterministic program in that you give the program a set of instructions and the exact same result comes out every time. This is good from your point of view, in that, if you decide that you can work with our results, then you can produce a lot of code very quickly with a standard outcome.

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Can I use WDZ to create a front end system?

The current web site that you are looking at was written using the base code supplied with WDZ, but then there was lots of additional code written to make the web site.

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What are the limits of WDZ?

WDZ produces code for simple parent child relationships and simple xref relationships, but there are loads of examples where this is not enough. Take shopping baskets for example. the simple relationship between the basket and the items in the basket is covered by WDZ, but lets add just one layer on top, so now we have a customer who has shopped several times in store, buying multiple baskets. So code will be produced between the customer and the baskets, but if you are in a customers record, then additional code will need to be produced for you to see which products were in the baskets.

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Where should I spend my time?

The most important part of any project is the design phase. It is highly important that you get the design right. For example WDZ is nearing completion and I realise that I will need the project key in the form field table, the field table and the handle table. WDZ will produce all the base code so that this will happen, but seeing as I am using all of these tables to produce the base code, knickers are going to get twisted.

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

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Author: Gaynor Portlock

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