BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Using AI for coding
De:       Dumas Walker
Data:     Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:24:00 -0500
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>  DW> In my personal case, I found that Gemini was good up to a point, but had
>  DW> trouble remembering what we were working on after a while -- after we got
>  DW> into the weeds about squashing some memory leaks.  We got sidetracked a
>  DW> little and then it completely forgot what we were doing.  It also
>  DW> hallucinated some.

> i guess you get better results with a paid subscription. The Thinking or Pro
> Mode are much better compared to the fast mode.
> And you are right, Gemini has a window or memory that it can hold. So after a
> while it will forget the earlier stuff from your conversation.
> you can make some notes about the milestones and repeat those important infos
> every now and then to remind gemini and to kind of reset its memory.

Quite a few people have suggested Claude and have also suggested that a pay
tier is worth it, even possibly short-term project.  I am not adverse to
that, I just want to be sure I don't get stuck paying for something that I
only use for a month and then don't have use for again for several months.

> i mostly use it for scripting. i guess for serious coding you should use
> programs like VSCode or VSCodium along with AI plugins and a subscription to a
> AI API service. Or Cursor.com etc pp.

Right now what I have been working with has been in nano and not any kind
of framework.  Do any of those plugins work with linux-based coding frameworks?

Also, the program I was really interested in giving AI a shot with is
DOS-based, so I am sure there likely are no plugins for any kind of
"framework" I might use there!  ;)

> Gemini with just the Text Form can also bring you some good results, but it ha
> its flaws that you can work around a bit but not really :)

> The good stuff is not free.

I am sure it isn't.

> It is a good Idea to give Gemini or any other AI a framework before you start.
> Let it know some basic rules and any additional info about your project that
> could be useful to know for the AI and repeat those in case the memory frame
> starts to run full ;)

Good idea.  If I ever start my own project, beyond just trying to get
something to compile with newer libraries and compilers, I will certainly
need to do that.


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