On May 10th, Provar’s team of experts (Richard Clark, Chief Product Officer, and Samuel Arroyo, Senior Product Manager) hosted an interactive webinar on ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot alongside Vernon Keenan, Senior Industry Analyst at SalesforceDevops.net. ChatGPT is a powerful conversational AI platform that can help businesses and organizations succeed in various ways. GitHub Copilot is a cloud-based artificial intelligence tool that assists users of integrated development environments by autocompleting code. You can use both platforms in software development projects to check, explain, or create new code based on English descriptions (AKA generative coding).
In the webinar, we shared our top tips to help attendees maximize their success with these platforms and demonstrated some of the incredible features available to help them succeed. Here’s a quick summary of what we covered.
What is Generative Coding?
We started the webinar by explaining generative coding: using an AI Pair Programmer to assist in designing, developing, and implementing a complex system. Examples include EinsteinGPT for developers, GitHub Copilot as an autocomplete system for large code segments, OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 to generate new code according to a pattern, and ChatGPT-4 or other large language models (LLMs) functioning as a software engineering consultant and workhorse.
Getting Started with ChatGPT-4
Next, we demonstrated how to get started with ChatGPT-4. This included demos of using ChatGPT-4 to replicate an existing pattern in code and to analyze and refactor code. This portion of the webinar took a deep dive into how to best utilize this platform for these solutions and was highly interactive.
ChatGPT in Salesforce DevOps Implementations
There are endless ways to integrate ChatGPT in Salesforce DevOps implementations, and we went over some of the market research for Salesforce DevOps that came about from inputting different testing solutions into ChatGPT and the subsequent responses. For example, ChatGPT can identify competitors and compare and contrast their various capabilities.
Getting Started with GitHub Copilot
We conducted a similar tutorial on GitHub Copilot to compare it with ChatGPT-4. Together with the attendees, we investigated the platform and conducted more interactive demonstrations. We deliberated whether to install the Copilot extensions for Visual Studio Code and enroll in Copilot and Copilot Labs. The demonstrated features of GitHub Copilot encompass code modularization, auto-completion, problem resolution, and code robustness. We concluded this section with an introduction to Copilot X.
Provar AI Integration Roadmap
Finally, we discussed how Provar integrates AI into its solutions and our roadmap for the future. Some of these intelligent capabilities included test and data generation, page recognition, and element recognition. They also included automatic page navigation, component navigation, and automatic execution by metadata change. We discussed where AI could be most useful in software quality. This was an exciting dive into the future. We concluded this section with an overview of how Provar uses AI today. We also covered how it will continue innovating and integrating AI into its solutions in the future.
Join the Conversation
The webinar concluded with an audience Q&A session, allowing attendees to ask questions about ChatGPT. We encouraged them to share their experiences and challenges integrating ChatGPT into their Salesforce delivery.
One question discussed in the Q&A portion revolved around privacy concerns. Vernon Keenan weighed in:
“Well, there are two things I’d like to recommend. One is to be cautious – turn off the ‘save chat’ feature if you’re concerned about privacy or have a corporate policy. I recommend not to shut off your usage of this new technology because of privacy concerns. If you’re a senior executive or such, you should organize some pilot group to start figuring out what’s going on with this stuff within your organization. So you can test it yourself so that you don’t get blindsided. We’re dealing with an exponential phenomenon right now with generative AI. It is now in this rapid expansion phase, and your competitors are looking at it.” – Vernon Keenan, Senior Industry Analyst at SalesforceDevops.net.
Vern also wrote about the event on his blog. Check out here for additional insights and information about using ChatGPT for Salesforce generative coding!
Many people attended the webinar, and we thank everyone who joined. We hope it served as an excellent resource for businesses and organizations looking to get the most out of ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot. If you missed the webinar, don’t worry – you can access the recording here. Stay tuned for future events, and join us to take your business to the next level!
Questions on the webinar or how Provar’s solutions utilize intelligent capabilities to help you maintain quality across your organization? Connect with one of our experts today!