GitHub user zuozhiw added a comment to the discussion: Emphasize AI in the first Apache release
I strongly supports both 1 and 2. AI is more relevant than ever and Texera is well positioned. We should take the opportunity of release 1.0 and pivot completely into an AI first system. In my view, this is not a change of mission for Texera, but a continuation of its original mission. Texera has always aimed to help less technical users do data science more easily. Today, AI is the most important new way to achieve that. Although AI is now everywhere, many of the latest and most effective practices are still mainly accessible to programmers. E.g. m, the best and greatest Claude code is primarily a terminal CLI. Texera is well positioned to close that gap and truly bring lots of values to our users. I also want to add that “AI-first” does not mean Texera should become just another product with a big chat box as the primary focus. Texera already has a strong identity through its workflow UI, and I think that is a major advantage. Workflow UI visualization still has the advantages of being easy to understand. In the long term, workflow-based interaction can work very naturally with AI: AI can help explain workflows, generate operators or subflows, and assist users in refining pipelines, while the workflow itself remains core. I saw there are concerns of how much AI we want to implement and if that will delay release. I agree we should be careful with release scope. But IMO releasing a version that no one cares about and fades into irrelevance, is far worse than delaying the release and make the release more AI ready. I think we should at least implement the readonly helping users to explain workflows Xiaozhen mentioned, and support using AI to generate single operators. GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/texera/discussions/4404#discussioncomment-16614928 ---- This is an automatically sent email for [email protected]. To unsubscribe, please send an email to: [email protected]
