I’ve been doing a lot of ‘vibe coding’ (AI coding with chatGPT) lately and had great success.
But I have to say it’s not very good at maxscript.
Does anyone have good tips on how best to or which service is best suited for AI writing of maxscript code?
Many thanks!
Windows Copilot and ChatGPT are the best so far. I was using ChatGPT more at the start but now I find Copilot the first I go to, pick up from previous conversations since it has some frame of reference.
Your observation is correct, it does make lots of mistakes even sometimes uses the wrong syntax/language format. My advice is use it as a learning tool, give it very small functions and learn from it so you understand what you are building as you go since you will need to debug it when it goes wrong, and it probably will at some stage. Personal advice take it or leave it: Once you understand it delete the entire function and re-write it yourself.
I also have a hunch that its learning from my code since it seems to be giving better results now and even calls me James lol. I also feed it information from the official docs when it gives me bollocks, I assume others probably do the same so maybe, its just a theory 
AI is moving fast so ill probably look back at this post in 2 years and laugh, but that’s the current state in my opinion.
Same for me: I found ChatGPT not very reliable when it comes to writing Maxscript.
Did you try https://claude.ai ? Just a suggestion, I didn’t try it for coding, but found it pretty good for general purpose.
I had some good experience with ChatGPT o4-mini-high with the “deep research” mode enabled. If a script doesn’t work at first, I just order it to fix it, and after a few attempts it usually works. I wasn’t asking it to write anything very complex though.
Yeah I found the new GPT is pretty good, especially now it remembers previous conversations and some updates they have done recently. I just find Copilot convenient since its installed locally and does the job, ill often switch between the two if I want to double check something but I run out of free credits on GPT so that’s probably why I use it less.