5 Apr
2025
5 Apr
'25
4:37 a.m.
I've played with using ChatGPT to write code for older things (quickbasic,
1990's C++, stuff like that). In my experience it gets confused and gives
you snippets that has features from later, modern languages. I'm far from
an expert but it feels to me like it gets confused during processing about
what to use as a source when giving it's answer.
So based on that, I'd say that the training wouldn't help a whole lot.
On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM John Foust via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
At 09:29 PM 4/3/2025, Doc Shipley via cctalk wrote:
The short version is that ChatGPT works well for
writing functions and
snippets - small, mostly linear pieces - but not complex processes. And
more importantly, you have to be able to write what you're asking for, AND
VALIDATE the output.
Sounds like he needs to write longer, more complex queries. It's perfectly
possible to hand it nine pages of description of what you want.
To keep this slightly more on-topic, if there is demand for AI to generate
or explain code of old dialects of BASIC, who out there is training
a model on old BASIC source code?
- John