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How Many Years Until QB64ers are CALL OBSOLETE?
#51
(01-24-2026, 02:12 AM)Pete Wrote: That will be a long time coming. Right now, I can't even get Alexa to figure out who's playing in the NFL playoffs. What I find disturbing is by the time it can write code in the style of the coder, it will probably also demand free health care.

Pete Big Grin
You never know! 

Free health care? These things will be smart enough to 3d print and build you a health care robot that'll do all that for free. The trick is to stay alive long enough to get that benefit! 

For now we have QB64PE. Gemini has been able to generate good enough code for pieces I need that it saves time. The sweet spot is to ask for pieces small enough to digest, fix without too much trouble and learn something from. For the rest, there's good old-fashioned elbow grease! QB64 runs faster and is more powerful & easier than any BASIC I've ever worked with. 

Now I just need a time machine to get more than 24 hours in a day!
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#52
(01-24-2026, 03:20 AM)madscijr Wrote:
(01-24-2026, 02:12 AM)Pete Wrote: That will be a long time coming. Right now, I can't even get Alexa to figure out who's playing in the NFL playoffs. What I find disturbing is by the time it can write code in the style of the coder, it will probably also demand free health care.

Pete Big Grin
You never know! 

Free health care? These things will be smart enough to 3d print and build you a health care robot that'll do all that for free. The trick is to stay alive long enough to get that benefit! 

For now we have QB64PE. Gemini has been able to generate good enough code for pieces I need that it saves time. The sweet spot is to ask for pieces small enough to digest, fix without too much trouble and learn something from. For the rest, there's good old-fashioned elbow grease! QB64 runs faster and is more powerful & easier than any BASIC I've ever worked with. 

Now I just need a time machine to get more than 24 hours in a day!
 LOL!

THE EMMIGRANTS got their GUNS, Pick Up Trucks and Wide open spaces (the government later ceased and banned public access too said spaces now though!) those of us (my lineage!) who stuck it out though got the NHS! (Though if you really need a GUN then i know a guy!) Still if the UK, Canada and France all kicked in Pete's intestinal legion from stress, nachos and play off season would mean we need to mine Greenland just to break even...

ME
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#53
(01-24-2026, 03:55 AM)Unseen Machine Wrote: (Though if you really need a GUN then i know a guy!)

If you really need a gun, drive on by. I'll loan you one of my spares. I had several, but since my parents deaths and I inherited their guns as well, I'm currently sitting at around 18 of them. (Unless I miscounted or haven't unpacked a few yet.) I don't mind loaning them out, as long as you can prove first that you're not going to try and hold them by the barrel and use the stock to smack golf balls!!

PETE IS FOREVER BANNED FROM EVER BORROWING A GUN EVER AGAIN!! GAH!!!
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#54
I don't own any guns. I prefer to lease. Sure, there are restrictions, but I live in a good neighborhood... so I don't have to shoot over 15,000 people a year.

Pete Big Grin
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#55
WOW! Thats a lotta guns! I got caught years ago with one once, and as they're illegal in my country...never again but thanks for the offer...also id never play golf with a golf bat let alone a gun! In London people just stab each other...shooting is for wimps afraid to face people down up close! (I'm a good boy now though! Last time i went to gaol(thats how JAIL is properly spelt!) was as a teacher not a inmate!

Me
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#56
With the growing capabilities of AI, soon all coders will be obsolete. It makes me thankful that I never pursued it as a career. My own career, farming, will fall to AI as well, but that might take a bit longer. The automated field implements are already functioning. I run an auto-steering sprayer already, it only needs me to steer the end rows. Coding will become a hobby that one pursues for one's own edification. Like many of us smallish farmers do already.
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#57
Coding is the BEST Game in town! Not just entertaining and pleasuable (when it works as you envisioned) but highly creative and challenging. Using AI to code is like having a robot eat for us. But use the robot to create new, tastey and healthy meals for sure.
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#58
Everyone talks about out how ai is going to do this and ai is going to do that, and how nobody's going to do anything anymore because all activities will be replaced by ai - even fun stuff. 

That's ridiculous! It's just a tool. As long as people enjoy making things, they'll make things. 

You might not have to manually manually program low-level details if you can have the tool do it, it just means you'll have more options for how to accomplish your project. You'll still have to prompt the ai to let it know what you want - that in itself is programming.

Also we might not want to trust ai to do certain things. That's up to you and me. 

If ai gets smart enough that say, nobody is making programming languages for humans anymore, and you miss programming, you can just tell the ai to create you an IDE for whatever language. You can even have it create you a language with whatever syntax and features you want! 

Stop worrying about ai - at least from a hobbyist's perspective of creating your own software like we do with QB64, it should only make life easier.
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#59
@madscijr Read the article I just posted on AI. It's more than just a tool apparently.

https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread...0#pid40060
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#60
(02-19-2026, 07:14 PM)NakedApe Wrote: @madscijr Read the article I just posted on AI. It's more than just a tool apparently.

https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread...0#pid40060
Thanks I'll check that out. So are they predicting it being used to bring about some dystopian skynet new world order?
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