[sdiy] AI code generation

[Todd Sines]

As I’m primarily an image maker of all sorts, the AI generated video, music, and image creation is both powerful and scary. However, I totally am on board with using Codex and Claude for more machine oriented tasks. I look at it like this — we, the users of the machine need to speak to the machine in the most efficient way possible. We’re banging our heads against the wall to try and exploit all the HW/SW resources we can, but we just simply can’t know at all. 

That’s when using a machine to talk to a machine is ideal. It’s like C-3PO; not exactly going to create the Sistine chapel, or Beethoven’s fifth, but it can speak in more than 6 million forms of communication. And that is pretty helpful when it comes to anything related to code or expediting hardware tasks in the most efficient way possible. I’ve been trying to dig into some machine learning task for scanning and replicating schematics for output to kiCAD using Codex CLI — getting somewhere, but not quite there yet. 

I’ll report back with my breakthroughs.



Todd

> On Apr 23, 2026, at 2:26 PM, Eric Frampton <eric at ericframpton.com> wrote:
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> I’m trying Claude to see if it can handle Z-80 coding, so perhaps I can finally implement some long-desired firmware optimizations on a vintage synth I’m fond of. I’ve started learning Z-80 assembler just so I can try to follow along with whatever code Claude spits out. I learned basic, Pascal, and Fortran in school, but gave up trying to learn 6502 Assembler back in the day. Gonna give it another shot. Interesting times.
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>> On Apr 23, 2026, at 5:14 AM, Brother Theo via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
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>> Hey everyone,
>> 
>> Touchy subject that I need to talk about. I just had Claude AI generate a CSound program for a complex effect. Not only did it hit all the points I gave it, but it even included some stuff I forgot, like a sound source, but also gave me a few ideas on how to operate it. And it took less than 15 minutes to do.
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>> I know a lot of you will rebel against the idea of AI. I was one of you. But this experience has opened my eyes to the possibilities. This piece of code would have taken me hours to develop. Claude did it in a fraction of the time.
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>> My buddy got me into this by telling me his experience. He took a code base for a 2007 synth and had Claude make changes and add features. Claude even found bugs and fixed them without prompting. The new code is working and is being tested.
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>> It is a brave new world. Should we feel sorry for the coders?
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>> Timothy Ressel
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>> FutureRetro Synthesizers
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