Ray Camden talks about “Anxious about AI writing CF code (and how to overcome your fears)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light.
“...that is the big shift I’ve seen over the last year, is that with all of the guardrails around things, it is so much more efficient and easier to trust AI to build what I want…”
https://youtu.be/cObnRO_4lKQ
Show notes
Anxious about AI writing code?
Vibe-coded horror stories
Skills
Your coding style, steps and guardrails
Alternative AI tasks if you don't want to let AI code
Plan
Test
Review writing and code
Ideation to overcome writers block
Use your own judgment and sense
Confidence in AI-generated code
Hallucinations
Unit tests
Human read (some) of the AI-gen code, eye
Critique this code prompt - ideally with a different AI
Blog as a static site
Hugo, to Jerkel, to Eleventy
Astro
Learning new languages
Learning Typescript
Does this code make sense
Coming from other languages to CF
Webawesome web library - similar idea to Bootstrap CSS
AI sanity checking of my code
Better syntax checking
Break down my line(s) of code
Stackoverflow developer vs AI assisted developer
Entry-level jobs
Software development new career paths
AI IDEs and vibe coding
VS Code
Agentic agent dev tools
Less typing of code
Autocomplete on steroids
SDLC and PRs
Create or update skill from what it learned
Ask AI agent - how can I utilize you better? Can you improve
AI coding as a super compiler
Higher level view
Beyond frameworks
Does the target language matter any more?
Adobe CF MCP docs server
What have you been doing lately?
Customer education
AI for marketing his blog ideas
Mentioned in this episode
Eleventy
Astro
Webawesome
Adobe CF MCP docs
Blog
The MCP
Listen to the Audio
Bio
Raymond Camden
Raymond Camden is a developer advocate, focused on Generative AI, the web platform, development and cats. He has 8 kids, 5 dogs and 2 cats.
Links
raymondcamden.com
His Amazon wishlist
Threads
LinkedIn
Interview transcript
Michaela Light
Welcome back to the show I'm here with Ray Camden famous cold fusion uh developer ai expert and general all-around great guy along with being a star wars fan and cat afectionado uh ray lives in louisiana one of the only state of the union that has a different law system I think and it does have great food and a bit of French influence. And he's a developer advocate, has been for many years. I think many, many years ago, a developer advocate or had some other title for Adobe, but you've now moved forward. And he has eight kids as well.
Raymond Camden
So eight kids, five cats, one dog.
Raymond Camden
No fish.
Michaela Light
Well, the cats might eat the fish. So welcome, Ray.
Raymond Camden
Hey, thank you for having me.
Michaela Light
And we're going to be talking about using AI with ColdFusion and development in general. Some of we're going to talk about are how some developers are kind of terrified about letting AI write code, having confidence in the code that's generated. How it can help if you have to move between languages. And we'll slip in some rag and AI sanity checking. And we'll ask Ray what he's been doing lately because that's always of interest. So tell us about how developers you talk to are frightened about using AI to write code. What do you think is going on?
Raymond Camden
I wouldn't say they're frightened. I think there's hesitation, maybe, because at least year or so ago, we saw so many vibe-coded things and heard vibe-coded horror stories. And I think, and from my personal experience, it wasn't necessarily fear, but I can remember about two years ago at a Microsoft conference. Using, I believe, Copilot. And my test was, hey, you know what? Create me a web component, but don't use a build step.
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Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers.
Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey.
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