AI coding?

[rumplestiltskin]

I will freely admit that my experience with AI is limited to asking Google a question on my Android phone and listening to the response. I may also have posted this in the wrong place but "Software Engineering" seemed like a reasonable location.

I just read an article https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/09/0 ... -that-way/ about AI code generation. If I understood the gist of the story, typing code is so 20th Century.

But can I actually "tell" something that I want a procedure that will, for example, let me drop a video file on a stack and have it compress according to rules I've set (also verbally or textually)? I'm still referring to Livecode Script, obviously, as I've posted this question here and not in some C++ Reddit substack.

I do know and appreciate the autocomplete in LC scripting but I know my question presupposes there's something to automate almost the entire script in an object according to my whim.

Perhaps my question just displays an ignorance of monumental proportions but, Hey!, maybe I'll learn something new and exciting.

[Emily-Elizabeth]

Claude has a good database of LCS and LCB that it can write a library or widget with just some prompting. It's helpful to know what it is doing, but with the easy syntax of LCS it's easy enough to figure out what it's doing.

[stam]

I'll second that - Claude is generally quite good, but attention is needed as it can confabulate by inventing system messages that don't exist (although probably should do )

The biggest advantage however is that Claude employs a wider arcing/holistic approach to coding - for example of you want to create sql based methods it will automatically address SQL injection issues etc that you may not have considered at that point.

Also if you use claude code it stores 'memory files' on your machine so it it knows very well about all your projects you've used with it, and your preferred coding approaches etc.

The downside for LC is that the file format is binary and it can't read/write directly to your files as it can with other platforms (even Xojo). So there will be an element of copy/pasting unless using scriptOnlyStacks (text files). Personally I try to move as much as possible in to SoS files for this reason, I still lament the lack of a text file version of stack files.

[rumplestiltskin]

Well, I'm dodging the cruise missiles that were launched over my head

But I think there's enough that I do understand to point me toward Claude. I'll give it a shot. Thanks.

BTW: What's "SoS files"?

[stam]

ScriptOnlyStack - text files

[richmond62]

I don't know about 'so 20th century', but I do know that my feet feel better in handmade shoes than in some 'clogs' from a factory.