Now, as you can tell from the last lecture,
this course will focus on GitHub Copilot
and Cursor and some chat GPT usage or
similar AI chatbots.
This course will not cover services like
Repl.it, Bolt.new, v0 or other popular AI
services you might have heard of.
For example, Repl.it is a service that tries
to use AI agents to solve problems for
you.
The idea is that you don't have to write
too much code there, but that instead
the AI does it for you and then you
essentially just review and tweak it.
And whilst this might sound promising,
in my experience, these services aren't
fully there yet, especially once you start
working on more complex problems.
At least I was never really able to
become more efficient with them and
whilst that might change in the future,
it's therefore not the focus of this course.
Instead, the focus are the main players,
the tools that in my experience give you
the biggest efficiency boost.
GitHub Copilot, Cursor and as
mentioned to some degree chat GPT.
Because those tools integrated into your
editor or in case of Cursor, your editor
being a tool with lots of AI integrated
into it, these really are the tools that
allow you to use AI efficiently as a
developer and to write code faster and
hopefully also better.
That's why that's the focus of this course.
If you are looking for those other tools,
this just isn't the course for you.
That's really important to understand.
Well, and with that, let's continue.