Hi all, I’ve been spending a lot of time working with the various AI models and how to speed up OFbiz development. These tools are truly revolutionary.
Grok3, from xAI is the current best-in-class AI model, and it knows out of the box OFbiz well and is the missing documentation we’ve always needed. :-) https://x.com/i/grok Just tell it the version of OFbiz you’re using and any other configurations before your question. For editing, Windsurf IDE using Cascade with the Claude 3.5/3.7 models is a game changer. https://codeium.com/windsurf Cursor is the other major player here, both are forks of VS Code and support VScode plugins I found Windsurf easier to use and more intelligent. It also can interact with the terminal which is pretty killer (cursor might be able to do this now too). Windsurf indexes your code base and can securely answer questions, find bugs, submit improvements, and do just about anything a junior developer can do. Spend some time and configure the Workspace AI rules file (Windsurf Settings -> Set Workspace Rules) with the tech stack of what you’re doing. I find it’s useful to tell it to make a document with a plan first before coding, then executing that plan. Use the @mentions for pointing to files or folders. These tools have the potential to 10x productivity especially with a lot of the more tedious tasks like refactoring and upgrades. Really exciting stuff, I strongly encourage everyone to check them out. --Paul
