The world has developed a newfound infatuation with “AI” technologies recently. Whether it be conversational output from ChatGPT, image output from DALL-E, or code itself authored by Github Copilot and the like. Many people seem to think that this is the first time software has ever been written by anyone but a human – but this couldn’t be further from the truth! Text & HTML templating engines, Interface Description Language generators, and heck, even plain-ol’ compilers & interpreters are classic examples of tools that write code for you that are in widespread use today.

This talk will take you on a journey through many methods by which you can have your code write more of your code using familiar, repeatable, and sane approaches – snake-oil not included.