"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> Just some clarifications and (hopefully) helpful notes about AI-generated code.
>
> Without direction, AI will just spit out anything it "thinks" works.
>

True! It does spits out a lot of stuff, like vomit. And like vomit there are
things there that could be useful, but You don't want to touch it.


> But we all know that SDL is "special".
>
> At least with GPT-5, I can tell it to remember my coding style, and give it
> certain rules to follow.
>
> If you see code with lowercase identifiers, then it's probably from before I
> puzzled all of that out.
>
> I've tried to have it generate code with capitalized identifiers, and prepending
> all of the ID's with the type:  S_ for scalar, V_ for vector, Arr_ for array,
> etc.
>
> It also sometimes drops * for multiplication and just concatenates two ID's
> together - just insert that * and that line of code should work.
>
> It tries to do c++ style "functions", both by writing multi-line code with
> #declares or #locals, and also by naming the output value and providing that as
> - BE

It did write a function that was really a macro.
LLMs (large language model) don't really understand anything.

Have fun!

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