Should we have a new forum category for AI related coding?

[Wallaby]

The way I see it, it’s fairly straightforward.

If you’re pro-AI, you’re free to embrace it — the productivity gains are undeniable. If you’re not, that’s fine too. If you genuinely enjoy coding in the traditional way, no one is forcing you to change. It’s similar to long-standing debates like Windows vs Linux or iOS vs Android — largely a matter of preference.

Personally, after 25 years of coding, I’m ready for something different. AI allows me to focus more on architecture and higher-level thinking, which I find refreshing. That said, I recognise I’m in a fortunate position running my own software business, where I have that flexibility.

For those working as programmers, though, choosing not to learn or use AI may carry real risks. Developers who can effectively use these tools are significantly more productive, and that difference is likely to matter when it comes to staying competitive in the job market.

[440bx]

Thanks for the suggestion.

This is currently being reviewed.

Nice to know the suggestion is being considered.

Can a time frame and/or reasonable guess for a decision be had at this time ?

Thank you.

[440bx]

@Thaddy,

Just a thought, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to add a poll to this thread to get the "yes", "no", "I don't care" counts for the new forum section.

[Joanna]

It’s not my place to tell people what hobbies they should have…

So your hobby has changed from pascal programmer to someone who plays with AI on the topic of pascal. This is called vibe coding I believe. Congratulations you can now tell people who ask questions about pascal to go use AI like you do.

If people don’t even care about their own projects enough to code them themselves why have a pascal programmers forum at all ? Let’s just turn over the forums to the scraping bots from AI companies and then use the AI companies plagarized code spoon fed back to us. 

It sounds like a plan.

[paweld]

I believe such a section should be created because there is growing interest in this topic in conjunction with FPC/Lazarus. Tools are also being developed to facilitate direct collaboration with Lazarus: https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/pipermail/lazarus/2026-March/241633.html
An additional benefit will be that people who find such topics disruptive will be able to block them on the forum

[jwdietrich]

Although I am not very enthusiastic about vibe-coding and other AI-derived coding methods, I think that the topic is already there and of growing importance. Therefore, I support the creation of a subforum for AI-based coding.

We should, however, make a distinction to avoid confusion: We should have two subforums, one for AI-based coding and a second one for the development of AI solutions with Free Pascal. There are already projects addressing this latter topic, see https://sourceforge.net/projects/cai/, https://github.com/joaopauloschuler/neural-api/ and https://github.com/joaopauloschuler/k-neural-api.

[Joanna]

As much as I like the idea of segregating people who like AI to a separate sub forum and never hearing from them again I’m concerned about the dwindling number of pascal programmers in general and eventually all programming questions answered with AI slop if they are answered at all.  It will be the mental equivalent of  a  flabby 300 lb person who has discovered that driving a car is easier than walking.

I’m very disappointed that anyone would think that  outsourcing any type of thought process especially software development to a AI owned by  unscrupulous companies who ddos our forum with their scraping bots is a good idea.

Why is it ok to encourage pascal programmers to be antisocial and talk to machines  and utilize only what the machines decide should be provided but not encourage them to be sociable and talk to each other for inspiration?

[Martin_fr]

The board is now available.

Please read the guidelines.

In order to keep a balance, and also allow us to maintain the forum with the available manpower, we need to have some distinction/limit as to
- What is fitting for this as a Pascal forum
- What is not fitting