I’ll admit I did used AI for code before, but here’s the thing. I already coded for years, and I usually try everything before last resort things. And I find that approach works well. I rarely needed to go to the AI route. I used it like for .11% of my coding work, and I verified it through stress testing.
I never had a issue with loops. If I feel something is off, I terminate, check code, and fix it.
This. I rarely boot up Python for the tasks I need to do, and if they are, they are one of the following:
I just write in a language few people really knows well. Not like I expect AI to do a great job of basing off my code.
I only used LLM-generated code once. I tested and made modifications to see if it was I want. It worked out.
In G’MIC, there’s repeat(num_of_iters,_var_name,code();); on JIT code, and repeat code_block done outside of JIT. It has while, for, dowhile on JIT too. Other than repeat, there is only do while, and for which is while outside of JIT.
Note: _var_name, can be omitted. So, if you need to just repeat a code N times, that can be removed.
Eh, I rather write code by hand no matter how long it takes.
I use KDE Kate for my coding. Scripting more accurately to some users, but I don’t find a meaningful distinction.
Pass. I rather use PyCharm for Python development.
Yeah. repeat() is unique to a few language. I think just Scala, and G’MIC has it. I use the second one. It’s more convenient than say for(p=0,p<5,++p,);. Sometimes, repeat(5,); suffice.
I actually use repeat(iterations,index_name(optionall),);. No need for i++ or ++i for loop in many cases.
I had this problem only once. Luckily, I do not need recursion. I know my way using iterative process.
As always, I do image processing. I’m a G’MIC filter developer. Recently, did some code changes to my combinatorics tools to be insensitive to multi-threaded strategy.
Braces too can be wrong. But, one is less likely to get it wrong. Modern editors often allows one to highlight matching braces immediately after selection, and rainbow braces(if available) makes it clear on the nest level.
I didn’t say it doesn’t help. But, it alone does not really help for bad and long code, but you are correct in that it would be worse with the wrong indentation. Like you pointed out, the program could do the wrong thing if there is a wrong indentation where indentation matters which is one of my issue with something like Python. And languages with explicit exit scope tend to not have that issue while adding to the benefit of making longer code readable. Where white-space sensitive languages really shine on in my opinion are small codes, and that’s where I think of using Python.
From some one who used Python as it was the easiest solution to few of my problems, and having to experience languages with brackets and/or endif/fi/done as ways to limit scope, I find that having things like brackets and/or scope terminators easier to parse and less error-prone. I’m thinking about moving on to Ruby whenever I had a need where Python would be a good choice, but the time it takes for me to understand a new language is blocking me from that.
Well, artists would disagree on that point, and I do agree with the artist. I do think ML at this current state and near future do have a limit. I can’t see ML doing anything complicated in 3D like a CAD automobile any time soon.
Indentations does not really help readability that much in case of really, really, long code, and in some cases, a code can execute without with unexpected result because of one single indentation being off. Both of these why I like things like curly braces/brackets and terminators like endif/fi/done/end/etc. But, at the end of the day, if there’s a readability problem, then that’s a sign that the code needs to be reworked on.
My crazy take is that there needs to be a interpretative language alternative to Python which uses brackets to define scope and/or things like elif/else/fi/endif/done. Much easier that way in my opinion, and the “;” shouldn’t be necessary. I’m used to Python, but if I had another language which can be used to serve similar purpose to Python with those features, I would never code in Python again when it comes up.
Having to code in Julia and G’MIC (Domain-Specific Interpretative language that is arguably the most flexible for raster graphics content creation and editing), they’re the closest to there, but they’re more suitable for their respective domain than generic ones.
I used it only as last resort. I verify it before using it. I only had used it for like .11% of my project. I would not recommend AI.