I've been using AI heavily for the last four years, including rebuilding my old Apple II BBS and writing a tool to validate and repair damaged Apple II disk images.
And I've learned something interesting:
AI is really good at programming. But programming isn't the same thing as software engineering.
With the Apple II disk repair project, AI can write parsers, analyze filesystem structures, compare disk captures, and implement repair routines. But when the data is corrupted, there isn't always a specification telling you what the correct answer is.
Someone still has to understand how the Apple II filesystem and hardware actually work, and recognize when the AI's proposed "repair" is wrong.
That's one of several real-world examples I've been exploring in my latest post, along with the Apple II BBS rebuild, Unity, robotics, and other projects I've built with AI.
AI writes a lot of my code now. I still have to know what the code is supposed to do.
I've also got a series coming up about the Repair_DSK project itself, including how I'm using AI to help build a tool for recovering and repairing Apple II disk images.
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