Google Antigravity and Spin2
refaQtor
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Google Antigravity (google it) free to download and use, I heard interesting things about the automated agents compared to my more manual approach of integrating new learning in my own head at each stage...thought I'd give it a try.
I had it find and clone and build the FlexProp build toolchain, then download and integrate the language and toolchain docs for itself, then generate a blink.spin2 and build and load it onto the hardware and make the LED blink….
ka-chunk-kachunk-kachunk! all automatic beginning to end from a single prompt on a P2 Edge module…
but, imagine the possibilities, especially when using something like the open source Robot Operating System (ROS) with tons of examples on common languages!
gonna be interesting 
‘cept…. my free tokens ran out 
before I tried anything more complex with Spin2
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So .. AI tells you that AI is the answer. And completely trustworthy to boot.
What could possibly go wrong?
I'm also very sceptical. I'm not completely against AI. AI has just found a bug in my software which had probably taken me days or weeks to discover. Somewhere in a deeply nested call chain I've locked two mutexes in the wrong order which could potentially cause a deadlock. This is something that is very easy to spot for an AI but very hard to a human because long and complex code can soon become very confusing. I also thankfully delegate tiresome work to AI like proofreading documentation or writing test cases.
But I refuse to give away control. Marketing slogans like "autonomously plans complex software projects for you" sound very suspicous to me. Nothing is for free. Autodesk also gave free licenses for Fusion360 years ago. Now you have to pay or you loose all your work. The AI companies may be very generous today but some day they'll need to make money.
I expect it all to go horribly wrong before the end. Just thought I'd try to enjoy the ride.
before then, I'll use it to make good things faster, or at all, than I could on my own.
that is plain, it builds some things faster than I could have. programming language syntax has never been a strong suit of mine. I appreciate a translator - from concepts in English to code.
after I have banged my head on a thing for too long to justify... then I apply some ai tools to help and it gets sorted out and actually implemented with my review at every step (and I see where my own confusion lay on a problem).. there is learning for me there and success.
just thought I'd share a little success in the edge-case world we Parallax Propeller people find ourselves.
but, I also can also learn... that I've spent too much time on unwelcome topics in forums.
Forget everything I said (except that I'm even more sceptical, now). The AI was wrong. The bug must be somwhere else but it's not the mutexes and the order in which I lock them.
At least AI and real humans have one thing in common. The less they know the more self-confident they are. Open minded persons tend to be more self-critical whereas stupid people think they are always right.
So double check everything an AI tells you.