How to Create a Wordle as a Centaur

Why you should use modern AI programming tools

I've been using Wordle as an analogy for serious software development.

In this article, I will combine the TDD solution that created a good model with an automated code generated using Artificial Intelligence.

I have written several articles on software development.

I will talk about Worlde to represent serious software.

In the first one, I created a backend Wordle using TDD and PHP.

Next, I watched a video on how to fully develop a Wordle using Automatic Code Generation.

Since Wordle is another Kata, I keep practicing it with TDD using Javascript

Now we have an amazing Wordle with a great domain model AND an incredible machine-learning user interface for it.

Let's combine them.

We have two repositories:

1 - The one with the Javascript Wordle made with TDD

2 - The one with the machine-generated code

Playable Version (Live) With Defects

We need to inject the changes into our main file.

Remember the scripted UI version was not modular.

We set up our valid game before building our UI

We create a text field to show status/errors to end users

This is not strictly necessary but it helps keep the UI as simple as possible.

rowIndex variable is no longer global. We compute it tied to the attempts tried on the game.

We are reifing the state into our Game object

And this is when all magic happens.

We replace the algorithmic and error prune letter counts computations with our more robust ones

We put it as a very long function in the same event for clarification.

The model now raises exceptions following the fail-fast principle and we can show them to the final user.

This method requires heavy refactorization in a future article.

Finally, we reset the game.

This was one of the many mistakes corrected from the first version.

There are repeated code at the start of the script.

You can play with the final version here

Source code is here

And a working repl.it here

The final code is full of refactoring opportunities and several code smells.

It is a proof of concept, not an elegant and final solution.

Image credit: A funny Twitter thread asking AIs to draw a Centaur