AROS would have achieved all the goals it’s been dragging its feet on for years long ago if the ‘junior’ staff had been able to do all this.

Thank you for your valuable work!

The only issue with AROS programming is that it takes soooo long to develop source code that does anything useful. It's very time consuming and people just aren't willing to commit themselves to it.

It may take several months or even years to develop useful source code. One advantage would be to produce source code that can be re-used for other programs or system files. That's where I am now with my projects. Much of the code can be re-used to be included in new apps.

Although my programming skills are improving there are some things I still need to learn. My annotation in my source code has improved. Now I add notations and cleanup code and fix indentation as I go. I used to wait till the end, but that never gets done! It's too much to do at the end.

There are several things I need to learn to get better at programming. I have to get much better at using GitHub. I need to gain experience writing device drivers whether for sound or graphics or peripherals such as USB or Serial connections. I also need experience writing or updating system libraries. Picture Datatypes, in a sense, are simplified libraries so I have a good start there.

Hint: there is a UART driver for AOS4 that I'm looking at. I'd like to implement something like "Waffle Reader" for AROS using USB-Serial with Poseidon USB implementation.

Vibe / AI can help a lot improving the productivity, but I recommend it only to experienced people.
The most important thing for a developer is to exercise, practice, and develop a good mindset and knowledge-base.
After that, a bot can multiply the productivity.

I have used Copilot AI recently, mostly for research to help understand certain concepts. It also provides useful code examples that actually work when included in my application and when compiled. I used it for gaussian blur research.

It does speed up the development process because I don't need to search the AROS programming database or OS4 documentation for programming. I just ask specific questions to get specific answers.

I hadn't heard of Vibe Coding before. I'll look into that. Anything that speeds up the coding process whether it is assistance with research concepts or actual code examples is a bonus! It's beneficial.