[Question] Code Clean Promtp for AI

[fridrichovsky]

Good day guys,
I have one question. If you create rules what should be done. Have you ever thought about creating an AI prompt?. I mean some prompt that could be used for solve some warnings or infos.

Example: Rule say that I should use codeunit "Confirmation Management" for confirms. So the prompt will be prepared for solve this problem.

Thank you for you answer.

[Arthurvdv]

I'm going to start with a quote from @BazookaMusic

Running an LLM on large projects will always be slower and less reliable than a deterministic code action.

In the future imo, it would even make sense for an LLM to invoke code actions as tools to fix the code it generates. This way it could save on tokens and the time it takes to fix the generated code.

Source: LinkedIn

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So the idea now is to provide deterministic Code Actions where possible, where for example the use codeunit "Confirmation Management" for confirms should be possible to have this.

Maybe for some complexer rules, like the LC0090 - Cognitive Complexity this could be a candidate?

Ever rule has the properties of a Title, Description and MessageFormat, where the MessageFormat can be used to create an sentence.

Do you have some idea's on which rules we can improve on the sentence?

[fridrichovsky]

Thank you @Arthurvdv for the answer.

I will try explain my thoughts.
I am looking for the fastest way how to solve warnings and infos for my projects :-). My example with confirm management, we rewrite almost same way. If we don't use placehodlers we add local variable with codeunit and use proper function. If we use place holder we do same and add use strsubstno function. When we preset default choice we use function with this option. This we do manually. It is almost same for each warning. So I am looking for function that fix this. I thought that I'll take output from compiler and I'll say AI how to love it. Another warnings I would like solve same way by adding rules/steps to AI. I was stuck on limits for tab "Problems" so I couldn't get all warnings properly. So I tried call command for build by alc.exe, but I am out with how to call it with correct parameters.

I think that you could have fix function for each your warning or info. Yes only for those that can be solved by automation. Example
LC0002 should be done by developer.
LC0003 can be done by function that find by object ID its name and use it.
LC0028 can by done by function that use regex with replace.
LC0090 - Is difficult. I know that I shouldn't say, but this rule I am skipping now, because we have more important problems in projects :-(

If you will have fix functions for those errors it helps with warnings and infos.

What I like is property "alOutline.codeCleanupActions" in "AZ AL Dev Tools/AL Code Outline". I suppose that you know it, but for sure. You can set there functions that will be processed when we run command Clean Up from VSC. This property allows set each fix so we can decide what we want solve by function.

It's really save time because function somehow get warnings and after that fix them.

Similar Clean UP could be in LinterCop.

I can imagine that I'll use the function and after that I'll do quick check by git changes what happens. I suppose that it will save my time with solving warnings.

Last point is. Why I have a lot of warnings. We upgrade codes from BC140 or lower to new BC26. These codes are not good and have a lot of problems. I am rewriting these problems by suggestions from LinerCop and Others cops. I am spending big time with this because I see for example 4k warnings and 2k infos.
I am also rewriting variable names or labels names from old style Text0004 to WrongUserErr. It was reason why I was thinking about AI.

I hope that I write it meaningfully. My question is little bit selfish because I mainly want to solve my problems after upgrading the code from old versions :-/.

Thank you for your time for reading