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See how AI checks your code from images in this demo

Quickly detect errors and get suggestions from code snippets with this AI visual trick.

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Brent Laster highlights a clever way to use AI for image-based code analysis in this quick AI tech tip. By simply feeding screenshots of code to AI tools like Claude, developers can uncover potential issues, receive improvement suggestions, and even get alternative approaches, all without manually reviewing the code line by line. Brent demonstrates how AI can detect things like critical errors, suggest input validation, and provide documentation tips, showing how visual code analysis can save time, improve code quality, and expand the ways developers interact with AI.

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Prompts used in demo

  • Analyze the attached image for any potential issues or improvements

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About the Author

Brent Laster is a global trainer, author, and speaker on open-source technologies. He is also the founder and president of Tech Skills Transformations – a company dedicated to making technology understandable and usable.

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