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    From MIKE POWELL@DIGDIST/CAPCITY2/UUMOES to NIGHTFOX on Monday, March 09, 2026 07:57:00
    Today, just for fun, I was experimenting with Cursor (one of the AI developme tools) and asked it to create a multi-track music recording program from scratch (C++ and the Qt GUI framework), and refined it a little bit with a fe prompts. It still would need to be tested (which I haven't done yet); I wouldn't expect it to fully work as expected right now, but it actually creat something that successfully builds & runs, with some configuration options -

    I have been watching some videos lately of people using Cursor, and others using Claude Code plugged into VS Code. It all looks very impressive. I
    am a COBOL programmer who can follow some of the logic in C code. I am thinking it might be neat to use to develop some things and learn C at the same time.

    So far, I have used google gemini (the version you get if you click the
    "ai mode" button on the google.com page) to help me get an c2020 abandoned FOSS project to compile with new library & newer gcc versions.

    Mike
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  • From Nightfox@DIGDIST to MIKE POWELL on Monday, March 09, 2026 10:01:18
    Re: Ai Software Development T
    By: MIKE POWELL to NIGHTFOX on Mon Mar 09 2026 07:57 am

    So far, I have used google gemini (the version you get if you click the "ai mode" button on the google.com page) to help me get an c2020 abandoned FOSS project to compile with new library & newer gcc versions.

    I think that's one thing that the AI coding tools seem to be pretty good at.

    Nightfox

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  • From MIKE POWELL@DIGDIST/CAPCITY2/UUMOES to NIGHTFOX on Tuesday, March 10, 2026 08:09:00
    So far, I have used google gemini (the version you get if you click the "ai mode" button on the google.com page) to help me get an c2020 abandon FOSS project to compile with new library & newer gcc versions.

    I think that's one thing that the AI coding tools seem to be pretty good at.

    I think so. Claude, the free version, might be even better. I was asking
    it a couple of questions last night and, before I knew it, I had a couple
    of PHP programs to test. I have not tested them yet, so we will see what
    they do. ;)

    Mike
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  • From Denn@DIGDIST/OUTWEST to MIKE POWELL on Sunday, May 24, 2026 21:31:46
    Re: Ai Software Development T
    By: MIKE POWELL to NIGHTFOX on Tue Mar 10 2026 08:09 am

    I uploaded a picture of me holding a rainbow trout to Gemini, Gemini told me it was a burbot, So I argued with Gemini before Gemini finally gave in and told me it was a nice rainbow trout.

    Denn

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  • From Dumas Walker@DIGDIST/CAPCITY2 to DENN on Tuesday, May 26, 2026 11:05:32
    I uploaded a picture of me holding a rainbow trout to Gemini, Gemini told me i
    was a burbot, So I argued with Gemini before Gemini finally gave in and told m
    it was a nice rainbow trout.

    LOL, I had to google burbot as I was not sure what that was. ;)


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