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    From MIKE POWELL@CAPCITY2/UUMOES to NIGHTFOX on Mon Mar 9 07:57:00 2026
    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 to MIKE POWELL on Mon Mar 9 10:01:18 2026
    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
  • From MIKE POWELL@CAPCITY2/UUMOES to NIGHTFOX on Tue Mar 10 08:09:00 2026
    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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