Web Standards and IDE-based AI Assistants for Software Development

AI-Driven Web Standards Specification Community Group,

Hello. I would like to share some ideas with the new AIWSS CG. These ideas are about how AI-co-created Web Standards documents might be formatted, e.g., might make use of HTML+JSON-LD, for maximal interoperability and provided features with near-futuristic IDE-based AI assistants.

One can envision software developers providing configuration to their AI assistants including URLs to standards organizations (e.g., https://www.w3.org, https://www.whatwg.org) to subsequently be able to ask their AI assistants natural-language questions, using IDE-specific context data, to obtain results and answers encompassing sought best practices, recommendations, and other software-compliance tips.

A vision is helping developers, seasoned and new alike (computer-science-educational benefits), to receive better quality answers to natural-language questions asked of their IDE-based AI assistants.

For a concrete example, while working with the Document Object Model (DOM), Web developers might ask natural-language questions while their AI assistants consulted sources including, in a primary sense, DOM standards and recommendations.

Bridging these ideas to other AIWSS CG topics: how might AI technical-writing assistants help teams to author and revise standards and recommendations documents which would be subsequently maximally interoperable with, useful for, software developers' IDE-based AI assistants?

These ideas are interesting to me and hopefully are of some interest to the new group. I would enjoy learning more about your ideas, topics of interest, and motivating use cases, into the new year. Thank you.


Best regards,
Adam Sobieski