Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by james_a_craig on Monday January 12, 2026 @09:44AM (#46589201)

"Please write me a program in Common LISP (SBCL is installed) which will render a simple "hello world" triangle in OpenGL. You should use only OpenGL and GLFW (using sbcl's FFI) for this, not any other existing 3D graphics framework."

This worked in codex-cli, albeit it took three rounds of passing back the errors. https://gist.github.com/jamesacraig/9ae0e5ed8ebae3e7fe157f67... has the resulting code.

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by f1shy on Monday January 12, 2026 @10:18AM (#46589632)

That is using sb-alien and sb-sys, which basically is no common lisp anymore. That is basically sbcl. I didn’t get anything in that direction (my prompt said nothing about a CL implementation) but I would have rejected it. I just wanted to see glfw and opengl in the :use clause. I have to do something that has to work in Mac, Linux and Windows, with at least ECL, sbcl and ccl.

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by james_a_craig on Monday January 12, 2026 @11:59AM (#46591161)

Yeah, I was just trying to keep to the letter of what you'd said - you asked for it just to use OpenGL/GLFW bindings, not other libraries, so I didn't want to install cl-opengl and cl-glfw, and told it just to use its own FFI.

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by f1shy on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @01:54AM (#46597986)

Well at least ypu and the other commenters made something that worked, which I was unable to do. Seems the key is using a coding agent, not an LLM out of the box like I did.

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