AI coding in ABAP

Inspired by the demo presented by SAP, in which we see how AI creates a ready-to-use program in SAP, I decided to check out free tools. Are those free utilities like Microsoft's Copilot, based on ChatGPT4 or Gemini able to create code in ABAP? With what results? Can they be useful for something else.
Finally, I will also present what I think about the demo presented by SAP.
See also episode about LLAMA3: • LLAMA3 coding in ABAP
And the last video about GPT-4o: • GPT-4o coding in ABAP
#AI #sap #abap #abapai

[@JicArosni]

Another great video. Thanks for that. For me as a basis person using AI to explain me what is behind a ABAP code is great insight. It requires to double check things here and there but overal worked fine for me so far.

[@suseelasarode2586]

Great video... With deep insight on human capabilities

[@robphelan]

it generated an internal table with header line? that's about 15 yrs out of date.

[@david56681]

Thanks. Indeed, AI for ABAP is very low in quality compared to Python for instance. Do you know if SAP is working on some models to improve that?

[@sapdalf]

Well, please check how GPT-4o performs - kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqXaY3mJobiqfqc

[@davidjjoseph]

Well Lukasz, congratulations on stretching a very minute (extremely narrowed down) ABAP use case into a video of about 30 minutes. You are right that general LLMs will fail to understand such a requirement that you had given it. why? the SAP Table information, e.g. fields of USR02 etc... are not published freely even within the help documentation. You may get configuration guides or even Wiki, blog or Community Questions from which these information could be gathered. you are right, a focused data model provided by SAP with all these information visible might make a specialized LLM work but even then, i doubt whether it will be possible to prepare such a data model to feed the machine learning algorithm. there are only a finite amount of tables afterall. One more observation from ABAP point of view, the code version generated by AI is now almost obsolete, it doesn't showcase the new syntax (NW 7.4+), next time maybe suggest a solution via the new syntax and why not even ask for Restful ABAP programming model solution. Its going to fail even harder. Good job with your videos. expect more RAP and CAP based insights in the future. 😃

[@sapdalf]

Yes, it's a fact, different versions of ABAP add to the confusion. In my other experiments, copilot sometimes did a mix of both versions. But not too often, because the source material is probably dominated by the older version.

[@davidjjoseph]

@@sapdalf yeah exactly and that too from text crawling on content from around 2021 i think. so, whats generated cannot be considered as the latest and greatest AI nocode solution. Atleast an experienced ABAP pair of eyes need to review the code and then approve for productive use cases.

[@Strusprawa]

Well so Im waiting for AI generator code to RAP including EML

[@sapdalf]

I can recommend you my another movie with LLAMA3 70B test. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYXWZn-Qe82crcU