Are you thinking about integrating Co-pilot into Retool? As a 'business-side' developer, rather than a member of the engineering team (and that we use Hosted Retool not Self Hosted), I don't use Github or VS Code for Retool development. If Retool had Copilot natively built in that would be an absolute game changer (and would probably eliminate thousands of developer jobs in one stroke....). Particularly if people opted in to share their code / generated code with Copilot, as you would imagine there are ~20 very common use cases that users are writing js fragments / transformers for, which an AI could then synthesize into standard patterns.
Could possibly be the long-awaited end of manually writing CRUD UIs? ("Build me a CRUD UI for this endpoint with a modal for the customer object")
I'd love to see something like this, as well. Perhaps an easier place to start would be by creating comprehensive documentation around the JSON format for the 'Import app from JSON' / 'Export to JSON' features (or does that already exist somewhere?). That might allow an LLM to generate compatible code that could be imported as a starting point.
We're actively building AI-assisted development capabilities for Retool that will do exactly what you're describing.
Our goal is to make this feel native to Retool, understanding your components and data models rather than just generating generic code. We're designing it specifically for builders like you who want to move faster without switching tools.
