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Paradigm Shift in Software Development, Part 2
Addressing the limitations of GenAI via REST API function calling
Last time, we mentioned that GenAI can be used to implement business logic and dramatically increase development productivity and reduce the effort of debugging.
However, I have to say that GenAI is not suitable for applications that require accurate computation. In other words, the demonstration in the previous article was just a demo and not a recommendation to use GenAI for calculating promotions.
But that doesn’t mean using GenAI as a business logic is a bad idea. On the contrary, GenAI is really suitable for replacing “some” business logic.
Maybe you will ask, most of the business logic needs to be calculated and requires accuracy, so what exactly can GenAI help? Well, I’ll tell you, it helps call the APIs that have already been coded.
The correct way to use GenAI to handle business logic is to encapsulate that business logic directly into a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) and let GenAI prepare the parameters needed for the RPC and call the corresponding RPC correctly.
