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Archive for October 23rd, 2025

Delphi code by generative AI: arguably even worse than some oder development stacks

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/23

For my links archive:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] What is the best AI at Delphi – VCL – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]

    There is simply not enough Delphi code around for AI training. It is easy to have good coverage for JavaScript and similar where you literally have bazillion web pages available for scraping, where plenty of them virtually repeat the most common, required functionality. Pushing for more publicly available code without considering its quality, can also backfire.

    [Wayback/Archive] PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> ollama listNAME ID SIZ – Pastebin.com

  2. [Wayback/Archive] What is the best AI at Delphi – Page 2 – VCL – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]

I still think these LLM are only good for inspiration (not just for the reason mentioned above) as using LLM generated code requires a lot of pre-thought and care, likely way more than any benefits (unpopular opinion: in a way programming based on LLM generated code is worse than being [Wayback/Archive] The full stackoverflow developer | Christian Heilmann which was later re-published at [Wayback/Archive] The Full Stack Overflow Developer – CodeProject)

I am not alone on this, as per Erik Meijer on Twitter:

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Exercism: Get really good at programming, fun, effective & 100% free

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/23

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[Wayback/Archive] Exercism

Via [Wayback/Archive] Stephan (TheTraveller@sw-development-is.social) on Twitter: “Would you like to improve your programming skills online? I recommend trying exercism.io. It’s free and you can get feedback from real humans (if you’re in the #Ruby track, may be even from me 😀 ). #exercism #ISupportExercism”

–jeroen

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