I’m a software engineer for a big company and we’ve been using AI-assisted coding for some time now and the impact has been tremendous. Especially with the latest Claude models, the level is ridiculous, to the point of being scary.
I used my personal Gemini 3 Pro subscription to implement a solution to the orphaned FoF Uploads and had a working solution in half an hour: a standalone Java program that uses a Flarum DB dump to scan through all the posts, connects to the AWS S3 storage to map all uploads and then prepares a pretty nice static HTML with analysis on all orphaned uploads with a thumbnail or a link for download and the ability for you to select those files that you need removed and it can then remove them from the storage, as well as from the forum DB “live” by using the Flarum REST API, or exporting a proper SQL statement that I can execute manually against the forum DB.
This all was ready basically in half an hour by me iteratively asking for different refinements and it was already knowing the Flarum API and DB structure from the information on the Internet. It’s a feature we’ve asked for a few years now with no prospect of it ever being created. And I got it from an AI agent by just asking and explaining what I needed.
With all that in mind, I’m wondering if the Flarum dev team is already utilizing AI-assisted coding? Because it can speed up things enormously. Especially since you’re just a few people with little free time to finalize the 2.0 release and no prospect of fixing all the open issues and features we’ve asked for years. Until now. What’s your opinion?
