Jordi Cabot articles - 39 total
None of the top 10 projects in GitHub is actually a software project 🤯
As part of our ongoing research, we periodically monitor GitHub to understand what is gaining...
Beyond Vibe Coding: Welcome to Vibe Modeling
Everybody talks about vibe coding, where you develop software by talking to an LLM tuned for coding....
Three laws of software agents by Isaac Asimov (kind of)
What would Isaac Asimov think about the software agents taking the world by storm and, more and more,...
On the rewards of programming by Donald E Knuth
If Donald E Knuth says it, who are we to disagree?: "Computer programs are fun to write, and...
Dashboard of open source low-code tools
I've created a dashboard listing open-source low-code tools available as public repositories in...
A wishlist and (potential) architecture for a low-code platform for smart software development
Smart software, also called "AI-enhanced" or "ML-enabled"give rise to unique software engineering...
The full tech stack to run a chatbot — behind the scenes of an open source bot platform
We always aim to "educate" aspiring chatbot developers about the software challenges of building...
How to build your own chatbot NLP engine
This post goes over our new NLU chatbot intent classifier engine for chatbots to show how you can use...
How to program a chatbot that reads all your website and answers questions based on its content
I'm sure you often get questions from your visitors and think "but this is already on the website!"....
Choosing Java as your language for a Machine Learning project - Are we crazy???
Most people are stunned when they realize that the Xatkit bot engine is written in Java. True, the...
Beyond no-code: no-learn and no-work development
No-code solutions aim to empower non-technical people to create their own software solutions with zer...
“Hello World”, chatbot version – Complete example
The Hello World program is the typical first example you see when learning any programming language s...
Create a chatbot that tells you the weather forecast for any city in under 100 LoC
Combining chatbot platforms with open data sources is one of the most powerful ways to easily create...
A Fluent API to create chatbots in Java (and why this is our third attempt to define a great Bot Definition Language!)
At Xatkit, we continue our quest to find the optimal language for bot and chatbot development. Some t...
Do you need a UI if you have a CUI? - Chatbots as first-class citizens in software development
Chatbots are becoming a common component of many types of software systems. But they are typically de...
How we transformed our Chatbot language to a state-machine DSL
Nothing better to eat your own dog food to understand how you need to improve your tool to better ser...
An OpenAPI bot to help you understand REST APIs
Chat with our bot to get up to speed with a Web API. Quickly discover what you can do with the API wi...
How to easily add sentiment analysis to any Java application
You probably want your bot to look as human as possible. And a key characteristic of (many) humans is...
Visualize the history of a git repository
I'm a visual person. I prefer to use graphical tools whenever possible. This also applies to the mana...
The Pareto Principle applied to the design of chatbots
The Pareto Principle, also known as 80/20 rule, is one of the most universal principles that exist. Y...
Transform interface design mockups into ready-to-use UI code with these AI-based tools
No programmer wants to spend hours aligning HTML elements or playing with complex CSSs. This is why a...
Deeper flow state with intermittent fasting - My experience
The worst day to give this advice (or the best one, who knows?) but I wanted to share the one single...
10+ tools to help you visualize your GitHub and Git project data
Any important decision should be grounded on data. This is also true for any decision that affects yo...
A Modeling Editor and Code Generator for AsyncAPI
IIoT (Industrial IoT) architectures are typically distributed and asynchronous, with communication be...
Customer code coverage
The notion of code coverage is well known in software testing. In short, code coverage is the percent...
UML is 20 years old. What do the creators of UML think about the language now?
The Unified Modeling Language is the most used software modeling language (which doesn't mean it's la...
The Big Five in tech (faamg) bet on low-code development
You know when something is getting "hot" when all major tech companies (i.e. the Big Five: Facebook,...
Build a GitHub Stargazer - Get Slack alerts when somebody stars your project in 4 lines of code
All the self-help gurus keep telling you that you should control your instincts and avoid checking yo...
From OpenAPI to UML (and back)
A consortium of major actors in the API market has launched the OpenAPI Initiative with the goal of s...
3 tools to showcase your GitHub profile
Like it or not, the first thing any recruiter will look at (just after googling your name) is your Gi...