Man, oh man. I've spent about eight hours having fun with Google's Gemini Advanced 2.5 Pro - and I am blown away by its potential!
Up until now I've been using ChatGPT as my primary coding assistant as well as bolt.new
I've been meaning to play with Gemini for some time, and started yesterday (Sunday evening) and finished this evening (Monday). Totalling about eight hours of play time, learning, coaxing the prompts, having utter fun correcting Gemini on issues and bugs -- suffice to say, I am really impressed, and also quite concerned at the same time for the future of software engineers, and also the future of computer science or programming degrees in the future.
If you've read my post on how I started with computers back in the day, two experiences stand out: 1/ Pacman game and 2/ the classic Quattro Pro MSDOS spreadsheet.
So I thought let me ask Gemini to build a fully functioning Pacman game as a single page application:
And second, a classic Quattro Pro throwback - not fully functional but just enough of a shell:
You can find the code on my github.
The future of software engineering is going to be so crazy...check my next post on how Gemini created a full tutorial for a computer science student to learn the inner workings of building a pacman game. Who needs to go to school in the future when we have our very own AI tutor always available?!
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