At Lifely, we use AI to help us develop software faster and more efficiently. It’s not about replacing anyone’s job; it’s about making our work easier and more enjoyable. AI can handle repetitive tasks - like finding the function you use once every 3 months - freeing us up to focus on the creative and complex parts of development we love. By integrating AI into our workflow, we can speed up mundane processes, catch errors early, and improve our code quality, all while giving us more time to innovate and build great products.
We work with AI in three ways: through study groups, general tooling, and project-specific pilots. Let’s examine each of these topics.
With more and more of our projects having some AI features and software development becoming more AI-powered in the future, it’s important for Lifely's developers to learn the fundamentals of AI-driven software development. To make the most out of learning, we have set up study groups to learn together in the Lifely studio so that you can learn and digest the topics together. Everyone receives an invitation for the study sessions, which will end once everyone has finished the materials. We expect this to take 6 weeks but may end earlier or be extended for longer.
Here is an overview of the study materials to get everyone up to speed. If you have suggestions for different materials, please send a message to @Martijn Schouten or @Bibienne Renskers.
<aside> 👉 The study groups are designed to get everyone up to speed with the fundamentals. To stay in the loop, we recommend increasing your intake of news about AI. To help you with that, we have created an overview of relevant news sources here.
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For our daily work, we’ll be rolling out the following tools for every developer at Lifely:
While you’re probably familiar with ChatGPT, the free version might use your chat history to train their new models. This is fine for general purpose questions, but if you want to paste in emails to clients, or proprietary code we’ve written for clients, we don’t want that to happen. That’s why at AIAIAI we’ve developed a ChatGPT-like tool which makes use of the latest LLMs and is completely private. Simply navigate to https://lifely.aiaiai.eu/ to get started using it. You can log in with Google to get access to your account.
<aside> 🛠 The AIAIAI platform is still under active development. We’ll update you when new features come out.
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Every Lifely developer has access to GitHub Copilot. GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant that helps you write code faster and with less effort, allowing you to focus more energy on problem solving and collaboration. Copilot offers coding suggestions as you type: sometimes the completion of the current line, sometimes a whole new block of code. You can accept all, or part, of a suggestion, or you can ignore the suggestion and keep typing.
To get started on Visual Studio Code, install and set up these plugins:
Continue is an open-source AI code assistant that you can connect to any model and any context to help you speed up development. It includes features like highlighting your code in Visual Studio Code and asking questions about it or apply changes in natural language to the highlighted code.