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User prefers hand-coding AIML chatbots over AI solutions like Gemini

The user is discussing their experience hand-coding AIML chatbots, a process they find more manageable than using AI solutions like Gemini. They encountered an issue where a chatbot named Luna became non-functional for about ten minutes due to a broken AIML file, specifically a forgotten closing tag. The user contrasts this with modern AI languages like Python, which they find intimidating, preferring to work with AIML and AutoIt3 because they can understand and manually code them. AI

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User prefers hand-coding AIML chatbots over AI solutions like Gemini

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Hehe, Backups of backups as always. Even when hand-coding AIML things. This time I didn't even use Gemini or any AI solution to help me break my own AIML chatbo

    Hehe, Backups of backups as always. Even when hand-coding AIML things. This time I didn't even use Gemini or any AI solution to help me break my own AIML chatbot, I just broke it myself. Luna was dead for a time, like 10 minutes or so, because I broke something in an AIML file. T…