Blender by the Numbers 2024 shows a lot of activity by webscrapers for chat AIs. You’d think they would start being useful now but I’ve recently had a go with Claude 3.5 andthe code rarely works.
Is anyone productive with coding Ais?
This is my first response to a topic here. I have been trying to use AI to create code so that I might learn something. Responding to your question I shall be posting what I have painstakingly instructed AI to make. It’s not an easy process, and many misunderstood instructions on my part to get AI to make the desired results. Asking AI for what is available in Blender’s API is also helpful. But anyhow, look for my posts and see if they help.
I use chatGPT to help me with Blender addons.
I think at the moment it can create very simple addons on its own. For more complex addons it often creates nonsense somewhere and you have to spend more time debugging than writing it yourself.
However, it is very useful if you kind of know what you are doing but lack routine. That way you can ask ChatGPT if you don’t know the syntax for example. The Blender Python API documentation can be difficult to understand if you are not a real programmer and ChatGPT helps a lot with understanding it.
Yes, I agree. My adult kids also help. But they don’t use AI or python code. I took an intro to game coding in college for fun. I’m trying to learn more.