I've played with using ChatGPT to write code for older things (quickbasic, 1990's C++, stuff like that). In my experience it gets confused and gives you snippets that has features from later, modern languages. I'm far from an expert but it feels to me like it gets confused during processing about what to use as a source when giving it's answer.
So based on that, I'd say that the training wouldn't help a whole lot. On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM John Foust via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > At 09:29 PM 4/3/2025, Doc Shipley via cctalk wrote: > >The short version is that ChatGPT works well for writing functions and > snippets - small, mostly linear pieces - but not complex processes. And > more importantly, you have to be able to write what you're asking for, AND > VALIDATE the output. > > Sounds like he needs to write longer, more complex queries. It's perfectly > possible to hand it nine pages of description of what you want. > > To keep this slightly more on-topic, if there is demand for AI to generate > or explain code of old dialects of BASIC, who out there is training > a model on old BASIC source code? > > - John > >
