List of Pascal programmers using a paid A.I subscription

[TBMan]

I'm a hobbyist and I'm paying $20 for ChatGpt. I used it to build a Windows API wrapper and some other useful things.

[Gustavo 'Gus' Carreno]

Hey Y'All,

I'm a hobbyist and I'm mainly using ChatGPT on the Web.
I use it a lot for a better replacement of Web searches or just esoteric questions about something my mind wandered off into.

With the web version I was able to get the templating system fp-tera-tpl done to a good point. I still have to return there and replace the expression parser for the one contained in Free Pascal.

More recently I've asked codex to help me do a C header to Pascal translator, fp-h2pas. I kinda got nerd snipped by one of the Delphi MVP's on the Slack private channel. That session started because I couldn't fall asleep and ended when I ran out of credit. I was also done being awake by that time, so the stuff on GitHub needs a lot of attention to see what was generated.

I did some sporadic testing with Claude and Gemini, but ultimately, I prefer ChatGPT. Don't have an objective reason, it's just a vibe.

Since I have no big revenue, I tend to use most of what the free tiers have to offer.

Cheers,
Gus

[Gustavo 'Gus' Carreno]

Hey Y'All,

And on the subject of AI, this explains a lot and also informs quite nicely on the bloat we're witnessing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t992ul_IKtc

Just stumbled upon it and thought it made sense to add to this discussion.

Cheers,
Gus

[440bx]

Hey Y'All,

And on the subject of AI, this explains a lot and also informs quite nicely on the bloat we're witnessing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t992ul_IKtc

Just stumbled upon it and thought it made sense to add to this discussion.

Cheers,
Gus

It is an interesting video but, honestly I think A.I has very, very little to do with the problems he describes, in part because they predate the widespread use of A.I to write code.

[dtoffe]

Hi all,

    I'm subscribed to the $ 20 plan of ChatGPT, for personal use and sometimes for work. At home I use it mostly for a side project. I transcribed the PL/0 compiler source from Wirth's 1976 book "A+DS=P" and modified it to run with current FPC. Then I started to add features one after another, to make it a subset of Pascal able enough to compile itself. I'm not there yet, but getting closer.
    The most remarkable thing here is that my coding sessions are roughly 15 to 20 minutes, as I have a full time job, a wife and three children, and take care of some family real state, so this is the only way that project could possibly go forward. In fact, I've been dreaming of doing something like that for a few years now.
    My setup is Linux Mint latest with FPC and VS Code with Codex extension. The process is very conservative I think, I ask for suggestions, then discuss the answers, and try to go forward in controlled and reviewed patches. I don't dare doing this fancy new agentic thing, at least yet, as I have seen a fair amount of "I asked this and you did that" to trust the whole process on agent Smith.

Hope this helps,

Daniel

[440bx]

Hope this helps,

I found the description you provided helpful.  Thank you Daniel.

[Curt Carpenter]

Hey Y'All,

And on the subject of AI, this explains a lot and also informs quite nicely on the bloat we're witnessing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t992ul_IKtc

Just stumbled upon it and thought it made sense to add to this discussion.

Cheers,
Gus

It is an interesting video but, honestly I think A.I has very, very little to do with the problems he describes, in part because they predate the widespread use of A.I to write code.

Interesting to think about how AI is going to impact all of the issues he talks about though.  He's mourning the loss of discipline in the craft I think, although I'm not close enough to the business to have any idea.

[Thaddy]

I am a pensioner, but a quick check with the team-leader/development manager that replaced me shows that multiple A.I. companies are contracted by the bank and e.g. Claude is rolled out for all 60 developers and testers in my old department. Its use is logged/monitored. Other department use different A.I. providing companies. (On corporate level they intend to reduce staff by 5000 "because of A.I." but I'd take that with a pinch of salt, the "because"..although that is what the press statement says.)

One particular thing to note is they are using locally trained LLM to manage coding style, culture and requirements for the different projects and languages.
That use surprised me a bit in the sense I did not immediately think of that but can certainly be a time saver and can contribute to a solid, coherent codebase and project management in general. (And less of a perceived risk compared to have A.I. write your code) We already payed much attention to that - full UML cycle -, but this can certainly be assisted by a well-trained model.