I can help you with one simple link: https://antigravity.google/ Don't try to work on code w/ AI 'side loading.' Work with it in an IDE. I've been in love with Windsurf (google it) for all this year. Google hired away the people that made that and then produced AG. Download it and open up a project and try it out. Talk to the AI on the side. It's a fork of VSC so it won't be something crazy to learn. Accept that the printing press is here, and books are coming. Code and enjoy the actual results of what you want and need, not the arcane creation of it. If you say "i enjoy the creation of it" then stop reading here and go fuzt around and enjoy your own thing. I want the results of the programming, i.e. the program! -andy
On Dec 13, 2025, at 9:44 AM, Neil Cherry <ncherry@linuxha.com> wrote:
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.
I will never take anything from you as a criticism! Fire away, if I didn't want to help i would have just not replied!
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.
Yes ignoring is not useful.
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.
See above, use AG.
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.
Your companies policies can't be helped. There are ways around everything however.
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
Free AI is just something to tell stories to. It will never code effectively in the short term. I don't use AI for stories or writing, i use it 100% for code because I never learned to effectively code and now i can code almost anything in 1/100 the time. Win.
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.
If you are not using AI to help you, then at some point your customers will use /find someone that does. This is reality. If the company you work for, doing code, doesn't realize this then they will be passed up for a company that does. Show them how it's effective (once you see it on your own) Imagine a company that delivers milk. It's 1909. They have 100 horses to do deliveries. There is another company that just got a model T. They start to use it. What happens then? You are that driver still using a horse in 1910. If you can't get your company to move to something that does not shit all over the road then you are working for a dead company. It's just a matter of time. Finally look at this image and ponder it for a long moment: https://preview.redd.it/rfxlhjb7ple51.jpg?width=768&auto=webp&s=aa0035f275f8... We had ~28 MILLION horses in the US in 1910. All the people that laughed at cars (besides being dead) were not acting in a reality based lifestyle. -andy
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