On 12/13/25 08:56, Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic wrote: Andy, huge thanks. Don't take anything in this message as a criticism. I'm a bit frustrated with the AI situation and trying to figure out how to make better use of it. Your information is helping.
SOTA paid models can do 6809, 6502, assembly, plus C for those cpu targets as well using and learning various compilers and linking semantics (cc65, cmoc). And that is the tip of the iceberg. Selling them short and laughing isn't the intelligent way, i'm sure people laughed at Gutenberg with his useless printed books with ugly type! Printing presses give power to the state! Now anyone can just 'print' propaganda! I'm laughing (and crying) at that last part as that's a pretty cool analogy. As there are folks manipulating the AI into what they want. So they are 'printing' propaganda. But then again the 'media' has been doing that all along.
And yes, I use it professionally and it's like having at least 5 devs that can prototype things in 1 hour for us to evaluate. It loves C# just a little less than node, so it's not just trendy web things at all.
I'm trying to figure out how to use this tool. I realize that AI is a huge boon towards speeding things up. I've just not figured out how to do that properly. I've used AI for Python, ASM (6800 & 68K, 68K went a lot better), C, JS (Browser app & node.js), and Robot Framework. It's the last one that is giving me the fits as it doesn't seem to support the security aspect of reaching APIs. It only seems to give simple curl functionality for the APIs. I have to use 2 different access methods to setup API calls. I may need to 'ask' that outside the company's AI.
If you use free models then you get exactly what you paid for lol. Actually that's part of the problem I'm having. I know the free AI are limited. But I've used several paid for models and I'm not seeing a great difference. *Although* I just put Claude (free) to the Flex disk test and its code is *MUCH* better than Gemini (Google's). It's not nice and tidy with pretty functions (I can fix that) but its total C code is a lot shorter. Readability is a mess but the code is 99% correct. Minor error is show Sector 255 as the 255th sector when displaying the information. The same mistake a Perl programmer made. :-D
My customer's internal AI is not really that good for code. Weird as they should have a lot of code to put in there. Remember I professionally code for my customer. When I get back in January I'll attack the security issues I can manually pull the data from the input and output to compare the flow. And that's the weird part. I can't call the same methods from inside the Robot Framework. I get security violations. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies KD2ZRQ