AI CodeCamp 2025: Embarcadero revolutionizes development
AI CodeCamp 2025 by Embarcadero showcased how artificial intelligence is concretely transforming application development with Delphi and C++Builder. The online event, held from June 16 to 20, 2025, introduced CodeBot for Delphi, the new AI copilot set to revolutionize developer productivity. With over 23 intensive sessions and the participation of international experts, the event outlined the roadmap for AI integration into the RAD Studio ecosystem, offering practical, ready-to-use tools to automate coding and enhance the development experience.
Held entirely online and freely accessible, AI CodeCamp engaged thousands of developers from the global Embarcadero community, reaffirming the company’s leadership in tech innovation after 30 years of Delphi. The event marked a turning point for those working with Embarcadero technologies, showing how AI can be integrated without disrupting established workflows while dramatically enhancing creative capabilities and development speed.
An event that made a difference for the community
AI CodeCamp 2025 stood out for its pragmatic and concrete approach to artificial intelligence. Hosted by Developer Advocate Ian Barker, the event took a balanced philosophy—avoiding both hype and underestimation of AI’s potential. As the organizers stated: “We are neither overestimating nor underestimating AI, but giving it the attention it deserves in the context of what it means for you developers.”
The event was structured to maximize practical learning: 5 consecutive days with back-to-back sessions covering every aspect of AI integration. Day one featured five intensive sessions focused on artificial neural networks in C++Builder, while days two and three expanded the focus with six sessions each dedicated to AI in Delphi.
A highlight was the session by Dr. Yilmaz Yoru, an expert with over 35 years of programming experience and an AI specialist active long before the arrival of ChatGPT. His presentation “Understanding AI Neurons and Activation Functions with C++Builder” demonstrated how to implement artificial neurons and neural networks directly in C++Builder, providing practical ANN programming examples for engineering applications.
CodeBot for Delphi: the announced game-changer
The climax of the event was the announcement of CodeBot for Delphi by David Millington on the fifth day. This new AI copilot is the first intelligent programming assistant designed specifically for the Delphi ecosystem, built to seamlessly integrate with RAD Studio.
CodeBot promises to revolutionize the development workflow with features such as natural language-based code generation, intelligent performance optimization, and AI-assisted debugging. In a live demo, Millington showed how CodeBot can interpret natural language requests and turn them into working Delphi code, significantly cutting down development time for repetitive tasks.
Its integration with Smart CodeInsight, already available in RAD Studio 12.2+, allows developers to interact with various LLM engines—both online and offline—directly within the IDE. The system supports general-use chat windows and specific editor commands for selected code, creating a truly AI-enhanced development environment.
Practical integrations that make a difference
AI CodeCamp 2025 shone with its focus on concrete, immediately usable applications. Experts demonstrated integrations with leading services such as Google Gemini AI via the FB4D library, allowing Delphi developers to implement text generation and image interpretation in their applications.
Particularly impressive was the demo of the AWS SDK for Delphi by Richard Hatherall of Appercept, who showed how to integrate Amazon Rekognition for object analysis and recognition. The example of the “Not a Hot Dog” app illustrated how simple it is to implement advanced machine learning in Delphi apps, opening doors to personalized e-commerce, recommendation systems, and computer vision applications.
Sessions also covered AI applications for customer support with intelligent chatbots, document processing with automatic text and image handling, and predictive analytics for business decisions. Every demo was accompanied by full source code and instantly applicable best practices.
Cutting-edge technologies for pragmatic developers
The event highlighted how Embarcadero is positioning its technologies for the future of AI development. RAD Studio stands out as the ideal platform for rapid prototyping of AI-powered applications, thanks to its cross-platform deployment capabilities (Windows, Android, macOS, iOS, Linux) and its vast ecosystem of components and libraries.
C++Builder showed particular strength in artificial neural network implementations, with native performance making it ideal for computationally intensive AI applications. The demonstration of tokenization, word stream handling, and linguistic relationship mapping via vectors impressed the community for its ease of implementation.
Delphi, on the other hand, proves perfect for rapid development of business applications integrating AI services, maintaining its traditional ease of use while extending its capabilities into machine learning and natural language processing. Its integration with enterprise databases and frameworks like RAD Server or the Open Source DMVCFramework creates a complete stack for enterprise-ready AI applications.
How bitTime Professionals supports the AI transformation
bitTime Professionals positions itself as a strategic partner to support Italian companies in this AI-boosted digital transformation. With deep expertise in the Embarcadero ecosystem and a solid understanding of the Italian market’s needs, we offer specialized services for implementing AI-powered solutions.
Our AI consulting services include automation opportunity assessments, design of AI-enabled architectures, and development of functional prototypes using the technologies presented at AI CodeCamp. The bitTime Professionals team has been using various forms of AI for years and is now ready to offer specialized training and support in adopting these revolutionary tools.
Our training offer includes workshops on AI integration in Delphi and C++Builder, hands-on sessions on LLM integration, and masterclasses on using cloud AI services with RAD Studio. bitTime Professionals guides companies through the entire journey, from AI strategy to deployment of production-ready solutions.
Strategic implications for the Italian market
AI CodeCamp 2025 has significant implications for the Italian software development market. With 90 of the Fortune 100 using Embarcadero technologies and a global community of over 3 million developers, the introduction of native AI tools represents a decisive competitive advantage for software houses that adopt them swiftly.
Various demos showed how AI can reduce development time for common tasks by 40–60%, improve code quality through intelligent suggestions, and reduce errors via assisted debugging. For Italian companies, this means competing more effectively on the international stage and offering innovative solutions to clients.
The focus on privacy and control emphasized during the event is especially relevant for the European market, where GDPR compliance and data sovereignty are top priorities. CodeBot’s architecture allows the use of offline LLM engines, ensuring that sensitive code and proprietary data remain fully under company control.
Conclusions and future outlook
AI CodeCamp 2025 demonstrated that artificial intelligence is no longer a future promise but a concrete, immediately usable reality for Embarcadero developers. The introduction of CodeBot for Delphi marks just the beginning of a transformation that will make development faster, smarter, and more creative.
For the Italian community of Delphi and C++Builder developers, this is the time to embrace change and start experimenting with the technologies presented. bitTime Professionals is ready to support this transition with technical expertise, specialized training, and strategic consulting, helping European companies consciously use AI to accelerate innovation and business growth.
The event ended with a clear message: the future of software development is AI-assisted—but remains fundamentally human-driven. CodeBot and the other technologies showcased amplify the creative capabilities of developers, not replace them. This balanced approach will allow the Embarcadero community to continue building excellent software, now powered by the limitless possibilities of artificial intelligence.