Claude a.i and I

[Fudley 9]

Claude a. I. 

Recently I've had three opportunities to use Claude in my D12 Fmx development. 

1. Needed to know how to scroll to a TListboxitem that was not visible. I had three different solutions off the net - none of which worked. 
Claude provided me with three different solutions, suggesting that #2 would be best for android. 
It worked a treat! I've been wrestling this one for a while... 

2. I have about 50 color themes for this app. I needed help naming them. My wife just rolled her eyes. 

I uploaded a text list in the form:
Theme Name 1:
#Hexcolor1 #Hexcolor2 #Hexcolor3 #Hexcolor4
Theme Name 2:
#Hexcolor1 #Hexcolor2 #Hexcolor3 #Hexcolor4
Claude provide a list of names almost instantly - and they were 90% spot on.  (i.e. Wedgewood became Limestone Quarry) 

3. I have a certain unique store/shopping type to represent, and was trying to layout a table structure for the store. I described the store and what it selling and what I needed to Claude. 

I got back a very long and detailed description, including the field structure and types.

 

Anyway it saved me a lot of time. 

[corneliusdavid 250]

I've found it to be helpful as well in many situations. Just this morning, I was updating an old Delphi XE program that needed to get a list of available drives and forgot what the procedure was called. Sure, I could've looked it up but Claude reminded me of GetLogicalDriveStrings much quicker.

 

Earlier this week, I wanted to try out Claude Code on my Windows machine. I learned it required Linux and didn't work on my currently installed WSL version 1. (The web-based) Claude helped me figure out which version of WSL I had, install WSL 2, then even though it was installed, WSL 1 was still the default so it helped me change that. Then, I had to go through a similar process with nodejs and npm. I learned several new "wsl" commands and got it up and running. It would've taken me many hours hunting down forums and blog posts to put all those pieces together--I probably would've given up.

 

It's not great at writing whole programs or untangling a huge library of code but it can sure save time in many instances.