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Comment · 8 days ago
In PasClaw, I specifically built it to do local embedding and other local only functionality. Whether it works well or not yet is another story.
Comment · 9 days ago
Look up the Pocket 386.
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Comment · 1 month ago
Https://www.pulado.com/

Built this 18 years ago. Flash arcade game engine. 10,000+ games built by users on it. 2+ million plays. Lets you build mashups of classic arcade rules like Breakout+Space Invaders as one example.

It's been unplayable since Adobe killed off Flash. It uses a lot of dynamically loaded remote assests so Ruffle hasn't been able to run it.

Recently had Claude Code fix the Flash client so it would work in Ruffle and then had it convert the code to haxe (let's call the haxe version v2). It was an interesting conversion because Claude made a lot of wrong assumptions about how the engine worked so had to have it test every feature and match parity between the ActionScript version and the haxe version numberous times and play test it all. It's pretty close to parity now but still ironing out kinks in the engine. The existing engine art is very 2010esq.

On the game editor side converted it (it just re-wrote it) from ASP into JS. Now with an AI agent to help configure the settings and generate fresh artwork in additional to the manual editor.

The art has some very specific rules about orientation etc which the pixel art generation models seem to struggle with a bit but getting that aligned as well.

It lives again!

Comment · 2 months ago
Same, I want to bench PasClaw on it.
Comment · 2 months ago
Orchestrating an AI agent built in native Object Pascal for Free Pascal Compiler and Delphi. Runs in less than 10MB of RAM. Besides being very Windows forward and local first; doing some fun things with it like incorporating WebLLM and running it in the browser inside a WASM Linux.

Https://pasclaw.dev/

Comment · 5 months ago
I use it with Delphi. Claude Code with Opus 4.7 works fine. It can use FPC in Delphi mode so that it can test itself. I'm doing greenfield and not an old project though.
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So many things...

- Write complex SQL queries

- Write Python GUI apps

- Write songs, heikus, and Christmas rhymes

- Write Delphi Object Pascal functions

- Write PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS code

- Create SVG files and ASCII art

- Find bugs in PHP code, Kotlin code, and HTML syntax

- Create HTML/CSS layouts

- Write SEO outlines and blog posts

- Write synopsis of a potential fictional novel

- Write titles for user content in an AI mobile app

- Create UI layouts for Delphi Object Pascal

- Create strategic marketing plans for clients

- Create recipies for a list of ingredients

- Write bash scripts, PHP CLI commands, WinSCP CLI commands

- Write haproxy and Dockerfile configs

- Orchestrated a 70 server CPU/GPU cloud in programming languages I don't know

- Write Python Stable Diffusion image model pipeline code with Diffusers and PyTorch

- Researching romance novel tropes, driveway maintenence, eminent domain, Waldorf, treasury bonds

- Writing professional sounding emails

- Text summarization and analysis

- Stock and real estate data summarization and analysis

- Psuedo scaling algorithms

- Marketing copy

- Code conversion between languages (like C# to Delphi)

- Cost comparisons between signing a Cloudflare enterprise contract and not over 12 months

- Naming a novel brainstorming

and many many other things. A huge productivity multiplier. It's like having 1000 domain experts and junior devs on tap 24/7 that you don't have to hire off Upwork. Also have to be able to recognize when it produces trash.

Comment · 3 years ago
It does. The FMX framework compiles to Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, and Windows. Single codebase single UI.
Comment · 3 years ago
The pricing or lack there of is a huge turn off. We use Replicate and Runpod. On Replicate everyone just shares the GPU cloud. On Runpod I had to bundle 8 together into my own cloud but I can't see that this service solves my problems (queueing image generation and restarting jacked stable diffusion nodes).
Comment · 3 years ago
Love Wordpress. We've made millions of dollars with it.

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