AI-Assisted Development in Action with Mendix

How is AI-assisted development different from traditional software development?

AI-assisted development is the use of machine learning to assist developers by providing recommendations in real time and enforcing best development practices. Mendix’s AI-assisted development is mostly based on generative AI (GenAI).

AI provides guidance, assistance, and generation throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Guidance

AI enables developers to ask the IDE development-related questions. In turn, the IDE gives immediate, insightful responses with access to the sources used to derive the answers. Examples would include chatbots providing summaries, asking follow up questions, and consultations on how best to build.

Assistance

AI can assist with making real-time recommendations and enforcing best practices. It can create logic or automate real tasks that often slow down developers using traditional development methods.

Generation

A major difference between AI-assisted development and traditional development is the use of generative AI. Generative AI can accelerate the development process and enhance quality by:

• Producing front-end and back-end logic
• Creating application components
• Automating tasks like creating SQL commands and test data

What features does Mendix offer for AI-assisted development?

If you haven’t met Maia, yet, it’s about time you did.

Maia (or Mendix AI assistance) is our suite of AI-powered platform capabilities across the entire SDLC.

Mendix’s answer to AI-assisted development, Maia for Smart Development, provides guidance, assistance, and generation for Mendix developers.

If you thought development was fast with Studio Pro, Maia for Smart Development lets you go even faster. With Maia, you get the speed you need to deliver solutions faster. Bringing solutions to market swiftly solves your customers’ problems faster. It helps your employees become more efficient more quickly.  Spending less time finding documentation means you get an offline-first mobile app into the hands of your field services managers faster.

Take advantage of Maia Chat to develop using natural language in simple conversation. Ask Maia Chat a question about how to do something. It will provide immediate, detailed answers to Mendix-related questions and resources to discover more.

You can also use Maia Chat to build portions of your applications. For example, start a conversation with Maia Chat to modify or extend an existing data model, or create a brand new one, all by simply telling Maia what to do.

While developing, Maia makes recommendations in real time with context-driven next steps or best practices to help you complete your build faster and more accurately.