On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 08:25:43PM +0000, apz28 via Digitalmars-d-announce
wrote:
> On Monday, 12 January 2026 at 18:32:59 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 02:56:07PM +0000, Mike Parker via
> > Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...]
> > > ### AI interlude
> > >
> > > As we were about to close, Walter told us he’d tried very hard to
> > > get an AI to draw a D-man. He'd failed miserably no matter how he
> > > crafted the prompt. He kept getting something that looked like
> > > Superman with a D on his chest.
> >
> > Somebody on Reddit appeared to have succeeded, a while back:
> >
> >
> > https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/1n9evn0/i_dont_have_a_twitterx_account_but_since_walter/
> >
> > https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/1n9jb19/heres_another_geminigenerated_image_of_d_running/
> >
> > That account sadly seems to have been deleted since, so no way to
> > ask how the prompt was crafted.
[...]
> Here is from CoPilot
> Create a floating D man; D is for D computer language and man is cartoon
> figure; cheerful but not as super man; just use D character and not human
> figure
>
> https://copilot.microsoft.com/th/id/BCO.6dd1abca-f0ee-406b-9f59-cdb78b81e875.png
Nice! Here's my own attempt with Google Gemini:
https://gemini.google.com/share/5840e3ab4e7c
None too shabby, IMO. Didn't quite capture the "happy" part, but meh,
I've seen worse from AI.
T
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