AI for Odoo developers

Coding assistants for modules, reviews, tests and migrations, with guardrails that keep code correct and upgrade-safe.

In this lesson

Generating code with context
AI for review, explanation and migration
Guardrails and typical AI mistakes in Odoo code

Key points

Give the version, parent code and conventions; ask for small changes with tests
AI review against a checklist; AI-drafted ports
Prove with tests, pylint-odoo and a fresh install
Watch for old APIs, copied core methods, missing access rights, invented fields

Real-world example

A developer asked an assistant for a 'credit block' module on Odoo 19. It generated @api.multi decorators, attrs in views and no ir.model.access.csv. Pasting the 19.0 parent view and asking for 'Odoo 19 syntax, tests and security' produced a clean module that passed tests after two small fixes.

Questions and answers

What should every new model have that AI often forgets?

Access rights in ir.model.access.csv.

Name two AI uses beyond generating code.

Code review, explaining core code, drafting migrations, writing tests.

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