I was passing the time looking at this and that when I remembered Jade.
Jade → Claude.
If a Xojo user have to register with Claude, what’s the point of Jade for users?
Yes, I don’t understand.
I don’t think any of us really understand the point of Jade. In its current state, it’s simply not practical. It might become interesting if Jade had access to the ENTIRE project and could reliably AND transparently manipulate it.
Until then, I just see it as a “we also have AI” feature…
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Jade is useless right now. Even in the presentation it makes mistakes, which a properly instructed Claude or Codex on the site doesn’t do.
I am curious if they manage to implement AI into the IDE. LLMs work on a text basis, reading files, creating files, testing by using the CLI, and repeating.
The IDE, however, doesn’t rely on the files written on the file system, only on the text which is in-memory right now. Also, tool-calling won’t work so well unless the IDE provides an MCP server.
Having an “assistant” inbuilt (if you could call a poorly connected window “inbuilt”) doesn’t bring value.
That Xojo moves so slowly here is an existential threat. If I compare how insanely easy it has become to create applications in Cursor or with Claude, the whole value proposition of Xojo (building easy, fast, native applications) becomes questionable.
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Text basis ?
I asked a question to Gemini and in the answer there was something wrong. I’ve made a screen shot of Xojo poointing the error and gave that to Gemini (instead of typing text): Gemini read the text in the image and understand where the error was.
I will forget the emerald until further notice (no need to register for example).
It uses OCR before it answers your question, which means, it transforms the image to text 
Also, do you wanna spam claude with IDE-Screenshots? This will eat your tokens in no time.
Xojo internally uses a binary format. The text and xml safe format are just there to store the code on the drive and to make versioning (Git) possible.
When every you or the AI changes the code files, you have to re-open the project in the IDE. This can take minutes for bigger projects.
I think, integrating Claude into Xojo will be a huge project, if even possible. Until this, the worlds moves on and makes development easier than ever before.
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Thanks Lars for your answers.
It does the same when I gave it an image to colorize, then incorporate “text” informations in my image (as images in my image): some may call that hallucinations… 