D and AI

[jmh530]

On Monday, 16 February 2026 at 02:57:20 UTC, Lance Bachmeier 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 February 2026 at 05:41:55 UTC, Daren Scot Wilson 
> wrote:
>
>> I am impressed that any AI can do anything with D or with any 
>> of the less widely used languages. No doubt all AIs that can 
>> deal with source code have been trained on the big languages, 
>> Java, Python etc. but apparently, at least Gemini and Claude 
>> have seen plenty of D.
>
> There's a lot of D source code out there, and a lot of 
> documentation (Ali's book, the templates book, everything on 
> the website, YouTube videos). It's not a major language like 
> Javascript, but it's mature and well-known, far above the 
> threshold to be included in the training data.

If the problem is complicated enough, then ChatGPT5.2 thinking 
still barfs on it. What seems to help is when the AI can actually 
run DMD.