[sdiy] AI code generation

[cheater cheater]

Has anyone had success using AI for analog electronics? Power
supplies, filters, equalizers, phase networks, etc?

Thanks

On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 3:42 PM rrsounds via Synth-diy
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> I used ChatGPT/Codex to build an audio app on my Mac using JUCE. Got more than halfway through, going great, and it went stupid on me. Repeating things forever, taking literally hours for the simplest things, and essentially acting like a recalcitrant two-year old. So I opened another instance of Codex, and told it what was going on. It wasn’t long before it suggested that I move my project to Claude/Code (?). Claude took nearly 7,000 lines and condensed it to less than 6,000, and started from there. It’s nearly done now, and aside from having a bit of a tug-o-war with GUI issues, the audio code is near flawless. I have no idea whether it’s written properly or not, but it meets my spec, doesn’t hog CPU or frame rate, and that’s good enough for me.
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> When I asked Codex why it recommended a competitor, it told me that it wanted me to get my work done.
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> David Reaves
> David Reaves Audio
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> On Jul 23, 2026, at 10:58 AM, Sarah Thompson via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
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> It’s a slot machine. Occasionally it generates gold. Often it generates something painful, or that looks like gold until it wastes your afternoon. I get it. I’m still writing my own code. What AI is doing for me is replacing some of the web searching I used to do, particularly now that Google seems to have heavily nerfed their search, and for cases where documentation is missing or of poor quality. But in the latter case the hallucinations are maddening. I miss having Google actually work properly as a search engine.
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> On Fri, 24 Apr 2026 at 17:51, Ben Stuyts via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> We’re drifting too much off-topic for this list now. The original question was about AI coding for synth/dsp. That was fine in my opinion. But we’re now way beyond that and I suggest we leave it at that.
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>> Ben
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