XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2025-12-16 11:42 p.m., vallor wrote:   
   > At Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:57:02 -0500, CrudeSausage  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2025-12-15 10:41 p.m., vallor wrote:   
   >>> At Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:16:03 -0600, chrisv    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> bonkmaykr wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> chrisv wrote:   
   >>>>>> c186282 wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>      Maybe an AI can eventually clean up both and   
   >>>>>>>      make a best-of system that's not clunky ???   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> It wouldn't hurt to ask.  "Hey ChatGPT, clean up X11 and Wayland   
   >>>>>> to make a best-of system that's not clunky."   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Piece of cake!   8)   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I am not sure what your programming experience is, but asking an   
   >>>>> AI to write any software that is non-trivial, let alone assist   
   >>>>> with it, is a waste of time.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I was joking, of course.   
   >>>   
   >>> "AI" (which isn't really "AI", it's just an LLM) can help   
   >>> with some of the "grunt work" of programming.   
   >>>   
   >>> My experiment with this was to write a newsreader with   
   >>> the help of ChatGPT, in Tk/perl.  It works.   
   >>   
   >> Is it better than Pan?   
   >   
   > Right now, Pan is better, I'd say.   
   >   
   > But newscamel has one feature that I don't think many newsreaders have,   
   > which is recording "read" (red) articles by Message-ID.   
   >   
   > That way, no matter which news server you switch to,   
   > it will accurately indicate read articles.   
   >   
   > I'm thinking maybe I should go back to Pan, and add that feature.   
   > Issue there is I'm not as strong with C++ as I am with C or perl.   
   >   
      
   It's just too bad for developers that AI designed that Usenet reader   
   faster (and probably better) than they ever could have. Lord knows   
   there's a lack of decent newsreaders other than Thunderbird/Betterbird   
   in Linux.   
      
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   CrudeSausage   
   John 14:6   
   Windows is fine.   
      
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