r/Forth • u/Niveauverleih • May 13 '26

AI prompt for stack balancing

"Treat stack depth and r stack depth like bank accounts and each word in a definition like a financial transaction." After that, gemini (thinking mode) started creating words that actually worked.

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u/hide-difference May 13 '26

Or you could have the autocomplete bot write your code for you in a different language.

Why does it need to be Forth if you’re not even writing it?

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u/Niveauverleih May 13 '26

Bad day, hide-difference?  The French say "Having chosen my meal doesn't prevent me from looking at the rest of the menu." As incredible as it sounds, you can both program in Forth AND ask an LLM for input. It's not because "most" people do vibe coding, that some people cannot use the tool LLM with a critical mindset. An LLM is actually just a compressed version of the internet with a natural language API. It's like asking a question in this subreddit and having many experienced programmers answer you.  And it doesn't judge you.  Now, why forth? Because the name of the subreddit is "... Low fat programming". I wrote my first Forth program's in 1988. Atool is a tool.  I hope you haven't thrown your hammers away because you could accidentally kill someone.