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Bolkonskij
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on: May 29, 2026, 06:52
How do you view the topic of new software being written for System 7 with the use of AI? Arguably, it helps a lot with development, be it debugging or finding workarounds to problems. Some people let the entire code being written by Claude & others based on their specifications. What's everybody's take on that? Are you using such software? Or not? Do you think it's potentially a positive thing or rather negatively? What is the impact for our favorite OS? |
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fogWraith
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Reply #1 on: May 29, 2026, 08:08
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It's such a touchy subject for so many, for some reason. Personally, I don't really mind what other people use to write their software, as long as there is a basic understanding of what is going on in their code. For those writing backends for online services / server apps, there is always a security concern, I'd look twice or thrice before using something written entirely by AI if the case revolves around such an application or service. Personally, I hate writing documentation, and this is my main use case for using AI. Sure, I have to audit everything it spits out and verify that what it spit out is accurate, but that process beats writing the actual documentation by miles. If the generated documentation is untrue and not factual, I have nobody else but myself to blame. The second case is incredibly useful, if I hit a wall (weird bug, code refuses to work even though it looks like it should), I can simply ask for advice or examples, compare, make the appropriate adjustments and continue with my work. Beats having to use a search engine or Stack Overflow. It just saves a lot of time. So I guess there are both positive and negative sides to the whole AI thing. One is the potential for whoever ever had the want to create something for System 7 (or greater) but lacked the resources - this grants knowledge and the opportunity to learn from what they are using AI to create. The most negative I guess is the backlash the ones using AI receives. Sometimes it's downright disgusting how some people react and act as soon as they get a whiff of "here be AI". Well, that's my short take on it.
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 981 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #2 on: May 29, 2026, 16:44
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I would highly advise against the attempt. And I'm talking out of experience here. Simple script snippets and specially hints as to the functionality behind a specific subject are an AI's strong point. But anything more complex than that and you're begging for pain & trouble. Case in point: Try to have an AI write you a lengthy AppleScript for MacOS 8.1 that is not infused with language elements that were introduced for much later AppleScript versions. There-is-no-intelligence-behind-AI. Its just a statistical analysis correlation machine with some elaborate language model attached to the back and front. Nothing more. Since very few web articles about AppleScript bother to include the phrase "do not use for earlier MacOS versions" any dumb, blind and deaf algorithm will inevitably get things mixed up here. And then comes the problem that AI doesn't know how to say "I don't know". It will present you with the perfect software code to solve your problem. Specially Grok will even brag about how good it supposedly works. Problem is it won't even make it out of the editor. Because the AS interpreter refuses to digest that stuff. With a compiler you'll be spending days hunting down logical errors that do not exist. Because the problem is that you were told to use the wrong language elements or software libraries, that do not do what the AI told you they would accomplish.
Last Edit: May 29, 2026, 16:46 by 68040
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