Jacob Rockowitz: Vibing Drupal: Tale 1 - Using AI to build and contribute a module

Introduction

I use AI every day to accomplish a variety of tasks. I'd like to share three tales about building, maintaining, and contributing to different Drupal modules. My goal is to discuss how I use AI and what I use it for.

At the same time, I am not trying to teach you how to use AI because I've noticed a nuance: AI can teach you how to use AI. For example, you can point an AI at this post and ask it to read the post, follow the links, and explain how things are being done. For me, open source and Drupal have always been more about sharing ideas, experiences, and stories, as well as code, allowing humans and their AIs to learn from or be inspired by each other's experiences.

My three tales are meant to be told in a specific order: building a greenfield project, maintaining a brownfield project, and contributing to someone else's project. Because of how AI works and the increased use of spec-driven development, people are discussing projects in terms of greenfield vs. brownfield. Ironically, I don't think of Drupal as greenfield or brownfield, but as infrastructure that fields and projects sit on top of. The most fundamental greenfield project in Drupal is building a new site for an organization, and for contributions to Drupal, building a new module.

Building a module using AI

Building a Drupal module with AI isn't new. I've written several posts that range from learning to build a Drupal module using AI to having AI build a module. The most recent module I've "built" with AI and contributed back to Drupal has a unique nuance: the initial code and solution came from an existing client project we are modernizing, and I had AI...Read More