I thought I’d share. I had been asking ChatGPT questions about the PicoCalc and I asked it to create a program in Basic programming language. It did and said it was for the PicoCalc and to just add it and run. I did so and it ran flawlessly.
This is called vibe coding, it works for building simple programs. However the more complex the programs get, the more likely they will fail and you will have to figure out why they are not working properly, so you still need to know how to program.
i get a warm fuzzy feeling seeing my future job security
ChatGPT 5 is getting pretty impressive. As a test I loaded the complete MMBasic manual to it and asked it to write a fairly complex graphics program in MMBasic. It did this perfectly and when prompted used complex MMBasic specific facilities like framebuffers with background copy. The only thing it couldn’t do is remember the manual from one session to another and said to reload it at the start of each programming session - still pretty impressive though.
I made a GPTs with PicoMite manual and quick reference preloaded. I’m working on the main prompt to avoid doing stupid code but that ain’t easy. Maybe I should work on an agent to debug with a picocalc emulator with api commands 