Using AI for Firefox development

[darincf]

I have seen a lot of discussion surrounding how to use AI in the Firefox browser. All of the talk appears to be focused on adding AI features to the user experience. What I have not seen, thus far, is any discussion about the use of AI to improve the development of the Firefox browser itself. If you provide the AI with the appropriate data sets regarding desired programming languages, rules, and vocabulary, would it not be able to look at the coding in the Firefox browser and determine what improvements to make. Or, taken in smaller chunks, have the AI improve, fix, or create a particular feature in Firefox. By utilizing the AI tools that are available now, you can increase the efficiency of Firefox development and help make Firefox a more competitive browser.

[kidchthonic]

Stochastic parrots don't have anything of value to contribute.

[rountree]

i recently got my programming working alotbetter and malwarebytes shows 100% on web security-i use windows 10 and firefox-problem first seemed to be microsoft edge and internet 11 over riding programming - i went to google account and then security -scrolled down to password manager and linked accounts , it showed list of wesites trying to access my samsung info /banking info/passwords and email addresses - google runs a Dark Web scan , then i deleted these sites sharing personal info and deleted google account - after running malwarebytes it blocks these encrypted  link and websites --one of many microsoft port and ip addresses being blocked is IP 101.43.5.247 port 445 -- appears to be microsoft SBM that links google and thier partner sites and block out other browsers such as firefox and breaks encrypted link on the trying to access personal info that they have no bussiness with --stops alot of the telemarketers and scams accessing my computer and phone --Thank to all listening

[rountree]

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[ikpjr]

Maybe a more simple, less ambitious and feasible option at this time related to using AI for development tied to FF, would be to have an AI that can assist users in developing FF addons, particularly making use of and explaining the addon/browser and Web/JS APIs and the content of each addon file, streamlining or making easier the whole process .

Is this reasonable ? Can an AI do this ?

[jscher2000]

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@ikpjr wrote:

Maybe a more simple, less ambitious and feasible option at this time related to using AI for development tied to FF, would be to have an AI that can assist users in developing FF addons, particularly making use of and explaining the addon/browser and Web/JS APIs and the content of each addon file, streamlining or making easier the whole process .

Is this reasonable ? Can an AI do this ?

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I think an LLM could help people better extract guidance from

https://extensionworkshop.com/

and

https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions

and the related sample code files, but I don't know what it would cost for Mozilla to actually train the LLM, and answer questions, rather than having a third party like Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, etc., include those materials in their regular training corpus. (I suspect it would be too expensive to host, but maybe it could be a huge download rather than a cloud service.)

[ikpjr]

Maybe the use of AMO's hosted open source addons on a training corpus wouldn't be too problematic, as the AI would help with queries of how to do stuff with addon's APIs . And there's a whole lot of scripts out there on the Web, including many repository hosting websites like Gitlab or Github.