On the topic of trying to find a USEFUL use for AI Coders, I wondered why we didn't have a Code Converter/Debugger/Explainer. For one thing, we have so much code built in problematic idioms, wouldn't it be so nice to point AI at your git repo and say "rewrite this old BASIC app in Go"?
And it turns out there is such a service, and it's a free one:
https://aicodeconvert.com/
I haven't tried it on anything serious, but it's a fun toy, and a great idea, if it works...
Adventures in aicodeconvert.com:
I have a very ugly 16k bash script I use to load my mp3 player with random selections from a collection of 54,000 tracks, transcode for the player when needed, and build a m3u playlist from id3. It's been tweaked and extended over 30 years, and it works, even uses random.org, but it is bash and, well, ugly.
So I submitted it for translation to Python, and ran the code unmodified, and it ran!
I suppose now I have a quandary: who is the author of my Python version? I personally never touched it, but all its spec, the symbols, strings and the pattern of the flow are mineβ¦
teledyn π