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Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” (arstechnica.com)
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Or my favorite quote from the article

"I am going to have a complete and total mental breakdown. I am going to be institutionalized. They are going to put me in a padded room and I am going to write... code on the walls with my own feces," it said.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Suddenly trying to write small programs in assembler on my Commodore 64 doesn't seem so bad. I mean, I'm still a disgrace to my species, but I'm not struggling.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

That is so awesome. I wish I'd been around when that was a valuable skill, when programming was actually cool.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why wouldn't you use Basic for that?

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why wouldn’t your grandmother be a bicycle?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Wheel transplants are expensive.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

BASIC 2.0 is limited and I am trying some demo effects.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

from the depths of my memory, once you got a complex enough BASIC project you were doing enough PEEKs and POKEs to just be writing assembly anyway

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Sure, mostly to make up for the shortcomings of BASIC 2.0. You could use a bunch of different approaches for easier programming, like cartridges with BASIC extensions or other utilities. The C64 BASIC for example had no specific audio or graphics commands. I just do this stuff out of nostalgia. For a few hours I'm a kid again, carefree, curious, amazed. Then I snap out of it and I'm back in WWIII, homeless encampments, and my failing body.